Muddy Quotes
118 Muddy quotes by 99 unique authors
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This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not…
— Jeffrey Tambor
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Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly…
— Omar N. Bradley
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The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
— William Shakespeare
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The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened…
— Jonathan Raban
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced…
— Otis Rush
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
— Warren Zevon
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Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids…
— Harvey Broome
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It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know…
— Tim Cahill
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The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is…
— George Catlin
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Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
— David Sobel
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The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full…
— William Proxmire
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The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at…
— Buddy Guy
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One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious…
— Charlie Campbell
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
— William Congreve
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An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who…
— Norma Shearer
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Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather…
— Grace Slick
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the…
— Dan Stevens
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Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
— Samuel Johnson
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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love…
— Robert Hass
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I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In…
— Eric Clapton
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
— Alan Watts
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Muddy Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 118 Muddy Quotes, led by these top contributors: