Mud famous quotes

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Advice #Criticism #Mud

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
-- Al Ries

#Ivory Tower #Towers #Mud

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Thinking #Feet #Mud

It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.
-- Alexander Agassiz

#Ocean #Way #Mud

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
-- Andrew Schneider

#Purpose #World #Mud

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.
-- Andy Irons

#Mud #Surf #Sometimes

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Goal #Mud #Flow

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.
-- Billy Bragg

#People #Wade #Mud

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
-- Boris Yeltsin

#Sake #Mud #Politician

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
-- Brian Clough

#Mud #Feminine #Covered

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
-- Carlos Santana

#Devil #Gold #Mud

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
-- Charles Dance

#Looks #Way #Mud

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
-- Chinua Achebe

#Humanity #Mud #Practicals

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
-- Christopher Fry

#God #Kissing #Mud

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
-- Craig Ferguson

#Heaven #Campaigns #Mud

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?
-- Dave Barry

#People #Mud #Sticks

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.
-- Deborah Butterfield

#Horse #Real #Mud

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.
-- Denzel Washington

#Rain #Mud #Praying

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
-- Edwina Currie

#Mud

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Giving #Flesh #Mud

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
-- George MacDonald

#Water #Amusement #Mud

When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
-- Gisele Bundchen

#Teenager #Dry #Mud

Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”
-- Greg Plitt

#Want #Mud #Walks

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
-- Howard Pyle

#Moon #Mud #Pennies

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
-- Hugh Prather

#Mud #Messy #Walk With Me

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
-- Ice Cube

#Dirty #People #Mud

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
-- Ivan Turgenev

#Stars #Mud

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.
-- Jacob Zuma

#School #Want #Mud

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
-- James Altucher

#Dirty #Pigs #Mud

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.
-- James Frey

#Water #Waiting #Mud

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Country #Dying #Mud

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
-- Joe Abercrombie

#Names #Mud #Soil

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.
-- John Banville

#Land #Mud #Horizon

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
-- John Podhoretz

#Presidential #Way #Mud

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#People #Sick #Mud

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
-- Jonathan Raban

#Sea #Cities #Mud

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
-- Jose Marti

#Winning #Liberty #Mud

They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!
-- Julia Golding

#Grandfather #Naked #Mud

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
-- Kane

#People #Caves #Mud

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Handsome #Mud #Faces

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Lucky #Looks #Mud

What memories for mud to have.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Memories #Mud

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.
-- Lynn Jennings

#Running #Country #Mud

The work of the world is common as mud.
-- Marge Piercy

#World #Mud #Common

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.
-- Mary Engelbreit

#Rain #Mud #Praying

It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy
-- MaryJanice Davidson

#Nice #Names #Mud

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
-- Mercedes Lackey

#Lasts #Mud #Said

Life is made up of marble and mud.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Life #Mud #Made

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Funny #Mud #Fling

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Order #Mud #Lotuses

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
-- Pema Chodron

#Jewels #May #Mud

Women are a lot like ducks-they don’t like mud on their butts.
-- Phil Robertson

#Ducks #Mud

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
-- Philippa Gregory

#Little Sister #Littles #Mud

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
-- R.J. Rushdoony

#Mud #Timbuktu #University

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Hope #Courage #Mud

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
-- Randy Newman

#Men #Mud #Politics

She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off
-- Red Skelton

#Inspiration #Two #Mud

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.
-- Reginald Horace Blyth

#Mud #World #Earth

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.
-- Richard Branson

#Dirty #Play #Mud

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
-- Robert Graves

#Poison #Mud

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?
-- RZA

#Beautiful #Flower #Mud

I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” “I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.” She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.
-- Sabrina Jeffries

#Brother #Wish #Mud

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer,
-- Sepp Blatter

#Football #Mud #Fifa

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#People #Steps #Mud

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.
-- Sharon Creech

#Blue #Car #Mud

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff...
-- Simmie Knox

#Color #Stuff #Mud

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
-- Teri Garr

#Mud #Heads Up #Just Do It

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful
-- Thomas M. Disch

#World #Mud #Puddles

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
-- Tiberius

#Poison #Mud

I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud....
-- Wallace Stevens

#Order #Rejection #Mud

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....
-- Wallace Stevens

#Hero #Believe #Mud

I, too, saw God through mud
-- Wilfred Owen

#War #Saws #Mud

But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
-- Isaiah

#Sea #Wicked #Mud

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.
-- James Poniewozik

#Fighting #Citizens #Mud

I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights.
-- Stacy Dragila

#Fighting #Barbie #Mud

Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.
-- Tony Blackburn

#Festivals #Mud #Splashing

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
-- Valerie Worth

#Mud #Puddles #Way

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
-- Ross Perot

#War #Wrestling #Mud