Mud Quotes · Page 22

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes…

— Ambrose Bierce

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.…

— Pema Chodron

I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy…

— Shandi Finnessey

A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but…

— Jay Michaelson

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

— Dennis Miller

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have…

— Charles Dance

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

— Saadi

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed…

— Alexander Agassiz

I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that…

— Ridley Scott

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered…

— Karl Pilkington

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

— Valerie Worth

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

— Jeff Cooper

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

— Al Ries

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

— Kristin Cashore

Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of…

— Anonymous

Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is…

— Rupert Brooke

Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue.…

— Melissa Marr

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

— Anonymous

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a…

— Pat Conroy

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

— Stephen King

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will…

— Harry S. Truman