Dirty Quotes - Page 7

• Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moon, Sky, Blue

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• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Doors, Fake, Secret

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• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Civilization, Role Models, Knees

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• She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Father, Clothes, Wish

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• She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Thinking, Hands

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.298, Penguin UK

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• He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

  Holly Black

  Hair, Giving, Mad

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Giving, Groups

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• If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

  Ben Bernanke

  Graduation, Games, Uniforms

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• Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Graduation, White

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". Conan O'Brien's Commencement Speech at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, on Class Day, content.time.com. 2000.

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• If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Play, Gold

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Nice, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Coffee, Ubuntu

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
  Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Land, World

  Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece

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• So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Pain, Hands, Appreciate

  Robert Farrar Capon (1967). “The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books”, p.170, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

  Katharine Graham

  Believe, World Government, Dangerous World

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• Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

  Bob Hope

  War, Vietnam, Clean

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• There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Teenage, Children

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, People

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• As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Unique, Opposites

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
  For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
  When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
  I could tell you things about Peter Pan
  and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

  Tom Lehrer

  Book, Men, Mind

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.

  Richard Summerbell

  Two, People, Sexuality

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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• Well I work up Sunday morning,
  With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt,
  And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
  So I had one more for dessert.
  Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
  And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
  An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
  An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Hurt, Morning, Hangover

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• I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

  Adam Goucher

  Running, Fighting, Race

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• We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

  Michael Brune

  Energy, Needs, Fuel

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