Grubby Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international… — Harold Covington
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as… — Jonathan Lethem
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,… — Nadine Gordimer
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are. — Caroline Corr
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put… — A. A. Gill
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be… — Meghan O'Rourke
Easy, Curious George! Get your grubby hands off of that wheel! — John Cena
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. — Theodore Roethke
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll… — Ben Nicholas
Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said… — Susan Cooper
What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I elbowed my way into the grubby cafÃ©, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating… — David Mitchell
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away… — Cornelia Funke
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you! — David Nicholls
Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start… — Rick Riordan
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell
I don't know what you're doing right now, but I bet it's more than likely You've got your grubby mitts shoved down Orlando's tighty-whities! — John Cena

Who Wrote These Grubby Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Grubby Quotes as follows: