Grime Quotes - Page 2

• Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Dream, Moving, Book

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

  Grimes

  Heart, Broken, Care

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• I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Thinking, Doors

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• I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

  Ice T

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

  M.I.A.

  Country, Artist, Hip Hop

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Determination, Battle, Grit

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• If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.

  Lady Sovereign

  Tunes, Want, Right Now

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

  Andre Bazin

  Spiritual, Photography, Eye

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• I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

  Lady Sovereign

  Labels, Path, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Light, Darkness

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, 2009.

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• If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Men, Would Be, Pits

  "Bush’s Colon - Or the Neutering of Karl Rove". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

  George Crabbe

  Boys, Fishing, Wife

  George Crabbe, “The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes”

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• Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Past, Color, Weather

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• He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

  Chinua Achebe

  Fighting, Earth, Shows

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  Sampha

  Cousin, School, World

  Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.

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