Dirty Quotes - Page 19

• Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Men, Age

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Men, Hands, Ideas

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Past, Opportunity

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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Wind

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Islands, Cooking

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 22), 1962.

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• Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Smoking, Hazards, Literature

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• A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Struggle, Winning, Smell

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• Busy is an opportunity, not a dirty word.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Opportunity, Busy, Dirty Words

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• An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Country, Towns, Members

  1811 'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Order

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• cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

  Vicki Baum

  Nature, Cat, Pigs

  Vicki Baum (1956). “Written on water: a novel”

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• Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

  Paul Gillin

  Data, America, Secret

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• So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

  Frank Nugent

  Dog, Book, Men

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• Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, Arms, Socialism

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Giving, Important

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, 1983.

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• ... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

  Nora Ephron

  Reading, People, Four

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Nice, Hands

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Air, Perfect, Rooms

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.

  Fergie

  Air, Space, Black

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

  Francis Bacon

  Letting Go, Sun, Chastity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

  Al Green

  Years, Church, Laundry

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• Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).

  Peter Scott

  Husband, Years, Sneakers

  Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.97, Penguin

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• Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

  John Hughes

  Christmas, Spring, Dark

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• I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

  Peter Wright

  School, Mind, Painting

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• Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

  Ronald Wright

  Dark, Night, Technology

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

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