In The Gutter Quotes

#1. It was not heartbroken rage against injustice that froze me. I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Patti Smith

#3. So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

Chic Murray

#4. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

Robert Pattinson

#6. Pens?" Chase echoed.
Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people."
"I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said
Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter."
"My mind is always in the gutter around you.

J. Lynn

#7. They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

Eric Clapton

#8. Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.

Franz Kafka

#9. You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

Thomas Fuller

#11. There shall come a day when all the women in the world will lie in the gutter screaming for cock,' he intoned. 'But not an inch shall they be given!'
'Am I to understand,' Knud Erik asked, 'that nobody wanted to screw you?

Carsten Jensen

#12. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

William Graham Sumner

#13. When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter

John Grisham

#15. I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles."
"They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that."
"So am I," said Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

#16. 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

#17. Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Raymond E. Feist

#18. What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. 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

#20. I may make you feel but I can't make you think ... your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink ...

Jethro Tull

#21. In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.

Hal Duncan

#22. If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

Anton Chekhov

#23. My mind is in the gutter so often, I have an assigned parking spot.

Duncan Spencer

#24. You can't cut down someone who's already in the gutter.

Nora Sakavic

#25. In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

Pat Paulsen

#26. Glory's like a bowling ball. She gets picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter, and yet she still comes back.

Suzanne Wright

#27. I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

Jack Kirby

#28. I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.

John Fante

#29. Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

C. K. Williams

#30. 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

#31. I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes

Marilyn Monroe

#32. He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.

Mark Twain

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

Vann Chow

#34. Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Bob Dylan

#35. I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you're along for the ride.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#36. That's not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.

Bryn Greenwood

#37. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Faber

#38. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Ruth Behar

#39. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#40. I swear I'm not going to lose it, or drop it in the gutter, or give it to a homeless guy.

Julie Kagawa

#41. I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

Janet Evanovich

#42. Oh no, Trace Corbin. If you think for one second that we're going to - " "Going to what, Kylie Lou?" His face was the picture of innocence. She knew hers was likely glowing with embarrassment. "I see you have your mind in the gutter. Nice. I approve.

Caisey Quinn

#43. [The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morley Safer

#44. Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighbourhood can stand for everything.

Stephen King

#45. Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

Daniel Handler

#46. Watching me play, Stormy had once said that if I were to become a regular bowler, I would spend far more time in the gutter than would the average alcoholic hobo.

Dean Koontz

#47. I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

Kate Winslet

#48. Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

#49. Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

Joanne Harris

#50. The top of el Raton's head lay forgotten in the gutter across the street.

Anson Scott

#51. I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

Mike Tyson

#52. I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Miguel Syjuco

#53. Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it's that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

Eric Thomas

#54. A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

Lee Trevino

#55. As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

Dylan McDermott

#56. 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

#57. In front of her the cat Greebo, glad to be home again, lay on his back with all four paws in the air, doing his celebrated something-found-in-the-gutter impersonation.

Terry Pratchett

#58. The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#59. I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#60. People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

William Faulkner

#61. You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

Eddie Izzard

#62. Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love,too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.

Cassandra Clare

#63. I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.

Ross Macdonald

#64. Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Michelle Malkin

#65. She said you were an awesome lay, I said, feigning interest in the gush of water that spilled out from the gutter by the lockers. My face would betray me if he saw it.
Well, that's true, Noah said.

Michelle Hodkin

#66. Look up at the miracle of the falling snow, - the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

John Burroughs

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

Debasish Mridha

#68. In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

Rajneesh

#69. 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

#70. In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Elbert Hubbard

#71. Future For cell mates For the gutter rats For those who are looked in on from the outside, and no one else will ever understand.

C.L.Stone

#72. Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Stephen King

#73. I compensate for my debauchery by being brilliant at it. I make sacrifices for it by waking up in a gutter covered in the fruits of my genius.

Bauvard

#74. I shall probably be found in some gutter, icicles dangling from all of my orifices, alley cats pawing over me to draw the warmth from my last breath.

Michael LaRocca

#75. The attack, Lorcan supposed, was Hellas's way of telling him to keep his cock in his pants and mind out of the gutter.

Sarah J. Maas

#76. 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

#77. But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. There were no bumper lanes to keep my ball out of the gutter.

Ransom Riggs

#78. I control your funds. I don't control you. And I think, Mr. Harte, that had you all the money in the world, or sat penniless in a gutter, I still would not find you very likable.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#79. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.

Mark Lawrence

#80. Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Jean Fremon

#81. I just kept eating my hot dogs and bowling by myself. Bailey sometimes rolled a ball into a gutter. When I had them put up the bumpers for her, she managed to roll the ball into another alley and land in that gutter. The girl had a talent.

Bijou Hunter

#82. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen

#83. I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Winston Churchill

#84. I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#85. I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

Anthony Kiedis

#86. Each molecule of the gutter bore away a molecule of heat radiating from Gringoire's loins, and the equilibrium between the temperature of his body and the temperature of the brook, began to be established in rough fashion.

Anonymous

#87. 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

#88. I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

Cassandra Clare

#89. I offered you the world," she said. "When you're dying in a gutter, you remember that." "I'll make a point of it," he said.

Neil Gaiman

#90. All the words he used in the beginning were gutter words. He heard them and stored them in his brain. Now, as I walk in the street, I look at dogs with secret horror. WHo knows what is hidden in their heads?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#91. Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

Miller Huggins

#92. To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.

G.K. Chesterton

#93. Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it ... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Casey Renee Kiser