Mud Quotes - Page 17

• I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

  William Wegman

  Eyelashes, Rivers, Floating

  William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin

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• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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• Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

  Tad Williams

  Cities, World, Nests

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.88, Penguin

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• "I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."

  Donald Barthelme

  Two, Rivers, Smell

  "The King". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 94, 1990.

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• Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

  Donald Barthelme

  Divorce, Thinking, Tiny

  Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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• Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Anger, Heart, Hurricanes

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• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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• Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

  Agatha Christie

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

  Jean Rhys

  Rasputin, Down And, Awful

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• Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Journey, Air

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

  Morley Safer

  Real, Lying, Food

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  Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

  Denzel Washington

  Rain, Praying, Be Careful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Life, Eye, Stones

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Feelings, Important, Mud Puddles

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• Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

  Munir Butt

  Selfish, Games, Hustle And Bustle

  Countryside Alliance Magazine interview, 2006.

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Sorry, Plato, Philosophy

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• The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.

  Theodoret

  Opposites, Long, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 263), 1895.

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• Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Morning, Feet, Soldier

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• Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

  Lynda Barry

  Beautiful, Play, Trying

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• At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Night, Saws

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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  If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

  Ice Cube

  Dirty, People, Born

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I, too, saw God through mud

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Saws

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• A city built upon mud;
  A culture built upon profit;
  Free speech nipped in the bud,
  The minority always guilty.
  Why should I want to go back
  To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

  Louis MacNeice

  Cities, Culture, Bud

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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