Muck Quotes

67 Muck quotes by 58 unique authors

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 much—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
Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once… — Terry Pratchett
The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own… — Christine Feehan
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley
Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one… — Rick Riordan
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… — Rick Riordan
There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going… — Terry Goodkind
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life… — Harry Mulisch
Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here. — Neil Gaiman
You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head. — Yoko Ono

Who Wrote These Muck Quotes

58 authors contributed a total of 67 Muck Quotes, led by these top contributors: