Scum Quotes - Page 3

• People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

  Alan Moore

  Long, People, Answers

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• Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

  John Manley

  Quality, Fundamentals, Stuff

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• I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'

  Ian Shoales

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

  Duke of Wellington

  Scum Of The Earth, History, Soldier

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• Syn may be too much of a gentleman to hit you, but I’m not. I’m not only ashamed to call you human, I’m completely disgusted that we share the same gender. You want to know the truth? The only filth in this room is you, and you’re the one who doesn’t deserve to breathe our air. Decent’s got nothing to do with birthright. It’s all about actions, and trust me, you’re the lowest form I’ve ever met and I’ve taken in the worst scum imaginable. But I’d rather sit at the table with them than you any day. (Shahara to Mara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Air, Gentleman

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• Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Humble, Humility

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• A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

  Saadi Yacef

  Men, Soul, Humanity

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

  Lynne Truss

  Expression, Cia Agents, People

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• This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Political

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• YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Dancing, Jordan

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• ...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Liars, Weekend, Thinking

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

  Melina Marchetta

  Teacher, Animal, Voice

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• Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Lestat, Eternal

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• Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Political, Nouns, Lists

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• Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

  Darren Shan

  Who Cares, World, Threat

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• When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  Cliff Sloan

  Perseverance, Men, Squares

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• They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
  Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep
  If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
  Because I'm scum
  And I'm your son
  I come undone

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Sweet, Hurt

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• The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Scum Of The Earth, Rich

  'The Flying Inn' (1914) ch. 15

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• We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

  John Mortimer

  America, World, May

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• Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

  Keith Preston

  Art, Democracy, Institutions

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• We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

  Richey Edwards

  Beautiful, Pissed Off, World

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

  Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, Dresden

  "Small Favor". Book by Jim Butcher, April 1, 2008.

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• I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

  Bill Hicks

  New York, Bye, Lizards

  "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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