Best 169 quotes in «dirt quotes» category

I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamonds fly. Add to this, the lubrication which music can provide, and you've got a workable literary form. Even when we reach the stars, we'll still be gazing down into the gutter.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.