Quotes About Gritty

That's not a word that I would put with the two: football and happy. It's a hard, rough, tough sport. Not a lot of fun.

Kottbusser Tor was the kind of area that had worn about as well as a music-hall poster, and Admiralstrasse, Number 43 was the kind of place where the rats wore ear-plugs and the cockroaches had nasty coughs.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

Time spent with the man was a bit like spending time with sand down one's trousers.

I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

Close to my heart is Muddy Waters. I love the way he sang. It was almost like a bark. It was like the bark of a dog: it's not fancy. Sometimes it's not like singing; it's like shouting.

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

She ran her tongue across her teeth. They felt scuzzy.

I guess no true Bostonian would trust a place that was sunny and pleasant all the time. But a gritty, perpetually cold and gloomy neighborhood? Throw in a couple of Dunkin' Donuts locations, and I'm right at home.

There are stains on their knees, stains on their arses. Dirty Leeds.

Crotch-punchingly real!

The guy next to him looked like he had covered his body in glue and rolled through a knife store. At the bottom of the feed was a logo that said "LEAGUE OF BADASS.

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.