Dirty Quotes - Page 27

• You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.

  Rachel Caine

  Spoons, Mouths, Sauce

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1004, Penguin

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• I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hands, Talking, America

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• If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

  Colin Powell

  Sticks, Tools, Ends

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Harm, Be Prepared

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.113, Bantam

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• If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

  Marquis de Sade

  Giving, Lust, Elements

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Eye, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Honesty, Writing

  "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth". Comic book by Grant Morrison, 1989.

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Men, Mind

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Philosophy, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 20, 2014

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• And then Mircea finally let me down, only to get his hands inside the coat and push me against the wall. "I'm dirty," I protested. He waggled his eyebrows. "Promise?" "Mircea!" I laughed in spite of myself.

  Karen Chance

  Wall, Hands, Eyebrows

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

  Vincent Cassel

  Guy, Needs, Littles

  "What I've Learned | Vincent Cassel", www.esquire.com. November 5, 2013.

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• New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  New York, Nice, Hustle And Bustle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

  George Herbert

  Long, Foul, Heed

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• Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

  Billie Piper

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  "Billie Wants a Woman", March 5, 2006.

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• You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Parent, Want

  "Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

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• All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.

  Evadne Price

  War, Believe, Home

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• I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

  Jay-Z

  Successful, Men, Differences

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• I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.

  Kid Cudi

  Shoes, Vampire, Wish

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• The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Worry, Risk

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• Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Men, White, America

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

  Miranda Kerr

  Confused, Home, Thinking

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• We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Simple

  "Looking Back on the Spanish War". Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

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• You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Want, Clean

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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• Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

  Francois Truffaut

  Masterpiece, Linen

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Government, Political, Dawn

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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