Quotes About Gritty

Milano: ha i muri sporchi e le strade intasate, ma vale la pena. - Milán: tiene las paredes sucias y las calles abarrotadas, pero vale la pena.

If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean.

To know gritty truth about life straight from the pages of Scripture is part of the grace of God and allows us to live safely and effectively in a fallen world.

I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

This is reporting the way I like it... in the field, gritty and aggressive.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

One day Id like to try my hand at doing a gritty cop drama.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

Lifelong wrestling fans who are discovering NXT and being like, 'Wait, this is the kind of wrestling I used to like,' or, 'I like this' - it's succinct. It's an hour long. You've got some great wrestlers, and you've got great storytelling, and it's simple, and it's gritty.

Sheehan's Pool Room, which adorns one of the lesser alleys in the heart of Chicago's stockyard district, is not a nice place. Its air, freighted with a thousand odours such as Coleridge may have found at Cologne, too seldom knows the purifying rays of the sun; but fights for space with the acrid fumes of unnumbered cheap cigars and cigarettes which dangle from the coarse lips of unnumbered human animals that haunt the place day and night.

ARTERIES HARDENED AND LUNGS blackened just by opening the door of the Weak Signal Bar and Grill. The seedy crowd brought plenty of colorful terminology to mind, but "health conscious" and "long life span" were not among them.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

I was recently told about this new biography by Simon Roberts and as a fan of true gritty "behind the scenes" stories this book did not disappoint! It offers a unique and often humorous look at life in the HK Police from his first hand perspective. After reading Hong Kong Beat I am left with the feeling there may be more to come from Mr. Roberts...

I love being grungy and dirty.

I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.

I hate sand. It just fucking sticks to me and makes me uncomfortable.

Whores hung out the windows like shreds of leftover Christmas decorations.

As glamorous as WWE may seem, you're probably eating at a Waffle House at 1 in the morning, and you're probably going to see the Ring of Honor guys there, too.

I hope to make an impact not only on the field, in the community, in the locker room. But on the field, catching the ball, returns, running the ball, getting the tough gritty yards, being able to make those special plays and being a great teammate, that's what I hope to have.

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

Like Dick, Sonic Youth found beauty and genuineness in the messed-up and broken