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Quotes About Dirty

nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
~ Madeline Miller
He was definitely part of the gang, but he didn't want to get his hands dirty. There were four trucks, and they drove slowly away from the settlement, not far, to a row of sycamore trees. Seth and I knew the place well because we had fished in the creek.
~ John Grisham
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
~ Vinod Khosla
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
~ Unknown
The human soul is like a whiteboard. You never know how dirty it can get (living in this world) until someone's love makes a clean spot. Anyone can clean a dirty board, but only the Son of God can clean a dirty soul.
~ Unknown
But for the sea-nymph Thetis nothing could ever eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
~ Madeline Miller
New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very lively, and never gay. When she glitters she is very, very bright, and when she does not glitter she is dirty.
~ Maeve Brennan
Now, here. The Warlord sent a likeness of himself." Sally frowned, but leaned in for a good long stare. "He looks like a dirty fingerprint." "Of course he doesn't," replied her father, squinting at the portrait. "You can see his eyes, right there." "I thought those were his nostrils." "Well, you're not going to be picky, are you? At least he has a face." "Yes," Sally replied dryly. "What a miracle.
~ Unknown
Honestly? I'm happy I went to a Catholic school," Lucas said, as he did a U-turn in traffic, looking over his shoulder. "Got a decent education and developed a dirty mind, which is one of the unstated benefits of a Catholic education. My women friends have greatly appreciated that.
~ John Sandford
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
~ John Steinbeck
The dirty romans are forming up for calvery.
~ John Steinbeck
A cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing face. He fought and argued, told dirty stories. He was as lecherous as always. Vicious and cruel and impatient, like a frantic child, and the whole structure overlaid with amusement. He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
~ John Steinbeck
Such men are rare now, but in the nineties there were many of them, wandering men, lonely men, who wanted it that way. Some of them ran from responsibilities and some felt driven out of society by injustice. They worked a little, but not for long. They stole a little, but only food and occasionally needed garments from a wash line. They were all kinds of men–literate men and ignorant men, clean men and dirty men–but all of them had restlessness in common.
~ John Steinbeck
Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.
~ Emily Bleeker, Wreckage
You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.
~ Curtis Jackson
Im a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
~ Tori Amos
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.
~ John Waters
Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The stink came from the prison cubicle next door. Old Ben was in there and Ben was the dirtiest man alive.
~ Unknown
It's a filthy world, Solomon. No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.
~ Min Jin Lee
I will never be able to wash this dirt from my name. You can't be very bright," he said. "How can you make something clean from something dirty? And now, you have made me dirty," Noa said quietly,
~ Min Jin Lee
It's a filthy world, Solomon. No one is clean. Living makes you dirty. I've met plenty of fancy people from IBJ and the BOJ who are from the best families, and they like to do some sick shit in bed. A lot of them do very bad things in business, but they don't get caught. Most of the ones I've fucked would steal if they had the chance. They're too scared to have any real ambition. Listen, Solomon, nothing will ever change here. Do you see that?
~ Min Jin Lee
It's a filthy world... No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.
~ Min Jin Lee