Quotes About Gritty

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

They call me the Magic Man because I'm a classy fighter, a master of my craft, a good-looking Italian kid from Brooklyn who came through a dark and gritty life to find something magical.

Stockdale told Collins, "This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." We named this third key learning gritty faith and gritty facts, and today we all work to take responsibility for both dreaming and reality-checking those dreams with facts.

Faith in the present risenness of Jesus carries with it life-changing implications for the gritty routine of daily life.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together.

When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.

When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

I've always been a fan of blue-collar players. I've never liked the glitzy, glamour guys. You can say I'm not a Kobe Bryant fan, at all.

Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

The sun woke me up the next morning. I sat up and groaned. My clothes were full of sand.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

There's nothing nice about the cage. There's nothing soft about it. It's nasty. You get in there. You get dirty. You get beat up.

I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.

gruff, the kind you associate with