Tramp Quotes
58 quotes by 54 authors
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A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like…
— E. M. Forster
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Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
— Hesiod
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When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all…
— Paul Dirac
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation…
— John Millington Synge
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Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
— David Bowie
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I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them…
— Katherine Moennig
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I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what…
— Katherine Moennig
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
— Elvis Costello
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If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.
— John Muir
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I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater…
— Andreas Deja
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I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
— Dolly Parton
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
— Joan Rivers
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there…
— C.D. Wright
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Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at…
— Isaac Babel
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the…
— John Steinbeck
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Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater…
— Clive Cussler
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I tramp a perpetual journey.
— Walt Whitman
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Uh, I thought DVDs werne't allowed at my sleepovers. They're not. Then why am i watching the Lady and the Tramp?
— Lisi Harrison
Who Wrote These Tramp Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 58 Tramp Quotes, led by these top contributors: