Muck Quotes

67 quotes by 58 authors

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible. — Cynthia Ozick
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. — Amanda Plummer
Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices. — Michael K. Williams
It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much. — Eddie Campbell
Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire? — Bruce Springsteen
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. — Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We… — Janice Tanton
Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself… — Raymond Chandler
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… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to… — Denis Leary
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags… — Jean Genet
I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for… — Georgia Byng
I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to… — Sarah Vowell
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on… — Karl Marx
Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term. — Eoin Colfer
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned?… — Martin Buber
For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the… — Steve Martin

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