A Dirty Shame Quotes

#1. Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.

Elfriede Jelinek

#2. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

Whitney Johnson

#3. Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

Shashi Tharoor

#4. Frisco" - a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes.

David Talbot

#5. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#6. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?

Rumi

#7. Death. I've taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn't courage at all, it was the complete opposite; weakness. Bad habits and vulgar sensibilities are my disease. The only cure is dignity and shame, how tragic that I seem lack both.

J.C. Wickhart

#8. And everyone who teaches about slavery knows a little dirty secret that reveals historians' collective failure: many African-American students struggle with a sense of shame that most of their ancestors could not escape the suffering they experienced.

Edward E. Baptist

#9. The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

David Edwards

#10. I don't want my pain blanked out, he thought to himself; I need to keep my pain. It is a part of who I am, every bit as integral as the joy I've felt.

Mark Samuels

#11. It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

Truman Capote

#12. For me you'll always be 18
And beautiful
And dancin' away with my heart.

Lady Antebellum

#13. You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards

#14. There's no shame with Park. Nothing is dirty. Because Park is the sun, and that's the best way she could think to explain it.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.

Laurie Penny

#16. In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

Michael Dell

#17. Because the number one feeling that was waiting to pummel me over the head was damned, dirty shame.

Karina Halle

#18. America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

Winona LaDuke

#19. I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

Michel Houellebecq

#21. We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Andrew Murray

#23. On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

James Robertson

#24. I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.

Jenny Han

#25. The ideas dictate everything.

David Lynch