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Quotes About Grubby

I always said the 155-pound belt's been in so many grubby hands, man.
~ Tony Ferguson
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
~ Amanda Donohoe
grubby contemporaries in the West, stumbling around in their codpieces, the silk-clad Mughals, dripping in jewels, were the living embodiment of wealth and power – a meaning that has remained impregnated in the word 'mogul
~ William Dalrymple
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
~ David Nicholls
Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.
~ Rick Riordan
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
~ David Nicholls
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
~ Caroline Corr
There might still be copies in existence if they got as far as printing them. He could've given some away. Review copies and the like." "I'm already on it," said Robin. "I've emailed a few different second-hand book places." This wasn't the first time she had found herself doing something for the agency that made her feel grubby.
~ Robert Galbraith
Jealousy? Is this, too, part of Onigumo's grubby heart?- Naraku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Messy, Grubby, Sloppy, and Robert.
~ Andy Griffiths
Stunned children stood in the middle of grubby yards.
~ Gillian Flynn
It was widely believed that a small, bald man in a grubby room in Moscow started all rumors to wreak havoc on our Western market-based economy.
~ Michael Lewis
Vince was notorious. He would easily have been the world's most terrifying human had he but been human. I don't know quite what he was, other than it was five feet six inches of wiry malevolence in a grubby T-shirt. Reliable rumor had it that he had not been born, but burst fully formed from his mother's belly and then skittered off to the sewers.
~ Bill Bryson
The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers or gaming Google's search algorithm or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message.
~ Daniel Lyons
Coming from the field of aviation, where mundane errors could cost lives, he was exact. For all these reasons, Dunie was drawn to testing, the grubby and anonymous side of programming.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
Dena seemed about to respond, but instead, she belched again, a smaller belch that seemed unequal as a harbinger to the monstrous chunky gush that erupted from inside her. I held her hair back and looked away as she finished retching. Working with children had made me less squeamish--they were constantly presenting their grubby hands to your, having accidents--but at some point, disgusting was still disgusting, Especially with an adult woman.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Talking to Time Magazine a few years back, Peter Drucker got to the heart of things: "I will tell you a secret: Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work . . . dealmaking is romantic, sexy. That's why you have deals that make no sense.
~ Warren Buffett
Of course you're a worm. We're all worms—grubby worms creeping over the crust of the Earth, through dust and dirt.
~ Philip K. Dick
Certainly nobody in the large grubby restaurant 'wanted to know'. My two fellow-diners were truck drivers being eyed hopefully by five adolescent girls in tawdry attire, clustered around the courtyard doorway. 'Two into five doesn't go,' I reflected. But perhaps these two would go into five if their charges were low enough.
~ Dervla Murphy
Republicans have gone from being a party that touted virtue to being the most squalid and grubby expression of institutionalized self-interest in the modern history of the American republic.
~ Mark Leibovich