Dirty Quotes - Page 12

• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Pigs, Digging A Hole, Grandfather

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Secret, Ugly

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• The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

  Rumi

  Water, Shame, Said

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• I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

  Milan Kundera

  Wine, People, Stupidity

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweat, Naked, Done

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• THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Zero, Unbiased

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• 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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• Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

  John Green

  Hurt, Lying, May

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.249, Penguin

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• There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

  Matthew Quick

  Silver, Playbooks, Sloppy

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• Whoa," Brit breathed, handing my drink back to me. "That was..." "Really hot," Jacob finished. "I thought you two were going to rip off each other's clothes and start making babies right here on the dirty, beer covered floor. Like I was going to have to start charging admission for what was about to go down.

  J. Lynn

  Baby, Rip, Beer

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• Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

  Darynda Jones

  Jobs, Perfection, Reyes Farrow

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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• I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

  Kami Garcia

  Want, Dirty Talk, Beautiful Chaos

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.937, Penguin UK

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