Gutter Life Quotes

#1. What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Homer

#2. (on fox news) ... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.

Stephen Colbert

#3. I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter

Kjiva

#4. For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

Deborah Eisenberg

#5. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.

Donna Lynn Hope

#6. Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame.

Alison Croggon

#7. A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve.

Tanya Masse

#9. We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

Hudson Taylor

#10. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So close to the other side, so far from the wonder. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So sick of the tug of war, that keeps pulling me under

5 Seconds Of Summer

#11. The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Theodore Parker

#12. Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Anne Lamott

#13. I want to sleep in the oven
because I just burn in the bed.

Casey Renee Kiser

#14. If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

Helen Dunmore

#15. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

Mary Ruwart

#16. As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

Philip Roth

#17. Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Orville Wright

#18. Continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

George S. Patton Jr.

#19. I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

Raymond Chandler

#20. Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

Mark Steyn

#21. I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Kevin McCloud

#22. Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the otherwise pleasant scene of life flowing through the less salubrious arteries of Crath City.

Mark Lawrence

#23. I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

Greer Garson

#24. Orpheus. Had the name he had taken ever suited him better? But he would be wilier than the singer whose name he had stolen. He would indeed. He would send another man into the realm of Death in the Fire-Dancer's place-and he'd make sure that he didn't come back.

Cornelia Funke

#25. See you in a few. Hold down the fort, Mr. Wong!

Darynda Jones

#26. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Vann Chow