Gutters Quotes - Page 3

• The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Ladders, Path

  Diane Ravitch (2000). “The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools”, p.244, JHU Press

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• We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

  Noel Gallagher

  Guitar Music, Guitar

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

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Compromise, Resolution, Middle

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• I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

  Greer Garson

  Thinking, Mirrors, Brave

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• I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

  Davey Havok

  Lying, Want, Yeah

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• I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

  Kelli Garner

  Simple, Guy, Spiders

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• Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dirty, Kissing, Mind

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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• Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter." "My mind is always in the gutter around you.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, People, Mind

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• The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

  Aesop Rock

  Block, Magic, Manipulate

  Song: Nickel Plated Pockets, Album: Daylight, 2002

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• God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

  Chuck Smith

  Children, Grace, Kingdoms

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  Horace Greeley

  Mean, Cutting, Winter

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• I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Fall, Men

  "John Barleycorn" by Jack London, (Ch. II), 1913.

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• If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dirty, Kissing, Two

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• Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Love You, Car

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• Homesickness for the gutter.

  Emile Augier

  Homesickness

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Philosophical

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• Work is the curse of the drinking class.
  I can resist everything except temptation.
  Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
  We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Drinking, Class

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• Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, People

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

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Glitter, Lasts, Parades

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

  Pat Paulsen

  Sex, Kids, Today

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• I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

  Mike Tyson

  Girlfriend, Sleep, Successful

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Fall, Heart

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