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Quotes About Dirt

case any dirt had accumulated overnight.
~ Anne Ursu
There's basically filth everywhere, and there's no way to escape it.
~ Andrew W.K.
We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the kids, but the real reason is that I can put my dirt bikes and a mattress in the back, then get out of London for the weekend.
~ Charley Boorman
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Dirty old hole, isn't it? The dirt is picturesque so I don't mind.
~ Louisa May Alcott
the posture than the results. This language thing is part of that. Excuse me: if you clean up the language too much you kill it. Dirt is freedom. You have to leave a little dirt. Cleansing? I don't like the sound of that.
~ Salman Rushdie
The night was aromatic with the smell of autumn and the steely fragrance of freshly dampened blacktop. How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February.
~ Joe Hill
How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in high July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February.
~ Joe Hill
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.
~ Robert Gober
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
~ Theodore Roethke
You get your face dirty, I'll kill you,' Patricia said absentmindedly.
~ Dylan Thomas
germy. It's
~ E. Lockhart
Although he has more leasure than almost anyone, the indifference ,appathy if one preferes, of the lower class person is such that he seldom makes even the simplest repaires to the place that he lives in. He is not troubled by dirt or dilapidation and he does not mind the inadequacy of public facilities such as schools, parks hospitals and libraries. Indeed, where such things exist, he may destroy them by carelessness or even by vandalism.
~ Edward C. Banfield
Dust is just a country accent.
~ Anonymous
Please don't feed the dust bunnies.
~ Anonymous
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
~ Lyman Abbott
the western sky as they drove out of Bayport's residential district and into the wooded outskirts of town. Soon they pulled up on the dirt lane directly in front of the Perth mansion.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
~ Franz Kafka
I am dirty, Milena, infinitely dirty, this is why I scream so much about purity.
~ Franz Kafka
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
~ Hedy Lamarr
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
~ Edie Falco
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
~ Lynn Coady
At last, the pure and fragile snow was falling upon us, separating off the air from the dirt, the living from the dead, the reader from the book.
~ Louise Erdrich