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Quotes About Dirty

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Everything was dirty and beautiful and wonderful. If she wasn't so terrified, New York City would have felt just right to her.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The city of Los Angeles - dirty, motley, teeming with immigrants and actors - was only an hour away. Notionally, it was the anchor of the region, but it existed at such a spiritual and sociological remove that it could have been on the moon.
~ Susan Orlean
I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with giving back to the community.
~ Too Short
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
~ Douglas Sirk
When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.
~ Carrie Underwood
I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
~ Charles Bukowski
Teeth. What god-damned things they were. We had to eat. And eat and eat again. We were all disgusting, doomed to our dirty little tasks. Eating and farting and scratching and smiling and celebrating holidays.
~ Charles Bukowski
Martyrdom, which looked so splendid when consummated selon les regles on Tower Hill or Tyburn, before pitying, or (still better) scoffing multitudes, looked a confused, dirty, ugly business there in the dark forest;
~ Charles Kingsley
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
~ Ronald Perelman
You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty. Listen
~ Tim O'Brien
All she knew was that she'd inflicted pain on someone she cared about, and that always cost you something, even if you were just doing your job. It left you feeling dirty and mean, exposed to the laws of karma.
~ Tom Perrotta
People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.
~ Kevin Smith
Potato picking was tedious, dirty, exhausting, and cold. I rather liked it.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Minha mão está suja; Preciso cortá-la. Não adianta lavar. A água está podre.
~ Carlos Drummond de Andrade
prejudice is the energy of ethnocentrism. It lurks there, napping, until ethnocentrism summons it to do its dirty work, justifying the occasional bad things we good people want to do.
~ Carol Tavris
You're so clean that you're dirty.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Power does not corrupt. Power reveals corruption. And absolute power reveals every single bit of corruption. So unless you want the dirty details of all your dreams made public, avoid absolute power.
~ George Hammond
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
~ George Orwell
The superior types, he points out, are also sinners. Of course, they are nice church members. They don't let all their dirty laundry hang out. No, their sins are vegetarian sins. Compared with the really nasty people, they appear good in their own eyes.
~ George R. Knight
In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate between what is dirty and what is clean. That he is ethically subhuman and dishonourable. It is therefore impossible to insult a Jew and from this it follows that a Jew cannot demand satisfaction for any insult.
~ Geraldine Brooks