Dirty Quotes - Page 13

• We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Listening, Stories

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• Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Father, Law

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• A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wall, Color, Would Be

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• For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Ambition, Hunger

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• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Mean

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• If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. … Go wash your windows.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Order, Looks, World

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• Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Government, Issues

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• I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Pieces, Used, Trash

  "Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2014.

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• I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Sleep, Tough

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• Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

  Yann Martel

  Beauty, Beautiful, Love Is

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.60, Vintage Canada

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• I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Golf, Eagles, Games

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• What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Home, Army, People

  Statement to the Senate, 1814.

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• I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Fall, Love You

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• Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

  John Muir

  Animal, Men, Cleanliness

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Association

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

  John Waters

  People, Trying, Hollywood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Boys, Parent

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Talking

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• Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Hands, People, Risk

  Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

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• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Sight, Sea, White

  V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Past, Voice, Southern

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  People, Leave Me Alone, Letters

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

  Maxim Gorky

  Morning, Children, Flower

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Pay, Clean, Pleasant

  'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Land, Bye, Earth

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.69

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