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Quotes About Muck

Down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.
~ A.E. Housman
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
~ David Cronenberg
But if you believe God's divine judgment and you countenance reincarnation, then it may be reasonably assumed that a certain bacterium living in the anus of a particularly ancient hatchetfish at the bottom of the ocean is the recycled and fully sentient soul of Adolf Hitler glimmering miserably through the cloacal muck in which he is periodically bathed and nourished.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck.
~ Edith Wharton
Was that amazing?" she demanded. "That was amazing," I agreed. It's hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you're both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.
~ Rick Riordan
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
clogged with all kinds of muck and wax and bits of chewing gum and dead flies and stuff like that. This made him deaf. 'SPEAK LOUDER,' he said to Bunce
~ Roald Dahl
Was that amazing?" she demanded. "That was amazing," I agreed. It's hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you're both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.
~ Rick Riordan
By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck. Butler decided not to attempt pursuit. Dying below ground was not very high on this *things to do* list. But there will be another day, fairy, he thought grimly. And there was to be. But that's another story.
~ Eoin Colfer
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
~ Amanda Plummer
From our vantage point in a time when muck is being raked (and flung) vehemently and constantly twenty-four hours a day, the question of effectiveness is overwhelmed by the question of whether any person in America with access to the media remains shockable or persuadable.
~ Jessica Mitford
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?- Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.
~ Robert W. Service
See, that's your generation all over-you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes.
~ Libba Bray
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
~ Jakob Dylan
Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.
~ Rose Tremain
These are the days when man has his hands on the sublime while he is up to his hips in the muck of madness.
~ Saul D. Alinsky
I'm covered in shit!
~ Markus Zusak
Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page, They were so tiny The pen could mash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange To write in this red muck Of things from my heart.
~ Stephen Crane
Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
~ David Cronenberg
If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.
~ Ayn Rand
Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
~ Arabella Weir
Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The farm life, the space, the muck, I absolutely loved it - it was like having your own kingdom.
~ Sara Cox