Mud Quotes - Page 11

• But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

  Anne Bronte

  Dust, Jewels, Water

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.243, Harper Collins

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• Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Lust, Lotuses

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• Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Giving, Depth, Illusion

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• It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Pride, Men, Doors

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• I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.

  Ridley Scott

  Ocean, Intelligent, Thinking

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• In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
  And talk of the old country--mud and boards,
  Poverty,
  The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

  Louis Simpson

  Country, Fall, Grandmother

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Ocean, Style

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Man
  is a bird full of mud,
  I say aloud.
  And death looks on with a casual eye
  and scratches his anus.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Men, Bird

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Garden, White

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• Unless we believe in the hero, what is there
  To believe? Incisive what, the fellow
  Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.

  Wallace Stevens

  Believe, Hero, Belief

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.269, Vintage

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• I have said no
  To everything, in order to get at myself.
  I have wiped away moonlight like mud.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Rejection, Moonlight

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.143, Knopf

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• The muddy rivers of spring
  Are snarling
  Under the muddy skies.
  The mind is muddy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Rivers, Sky

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• Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
  Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
  My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Swings, Black, Green

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.113

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• Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
  Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
  Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Tumbling Down

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.246

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• These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!

  Frank Peretti

  Prayer, Eye, Self

  Frank Peretti (2012). “Piercing the Darkness: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Son

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• He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

  J. M. Coetzee

  Long, Mind, One Day

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.117, Random House

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Miracle, Toilets

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  World, Spirit, Fear Of Death

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Writing, Throwing

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• He who sling mud, lose ground.

  Confucius

  Loses

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• The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

  John Fowles

  Love, Memories, War

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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