Throwing Mud Quotes

#1. Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

Joseph Conrad

#2. I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

Karl Rove

#3. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone ... I was throwing radios off buildings and ... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

William Wegman

#5. You know, Lucia," Avani said as we came to the intersection of Jordan street and Barkstone, "I feel our sun slipping away with each passing day. I hope it doesn't fade.

Darcy Ridge

#6. Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Jodie Foster

#7. I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Joe Scarborough

#8. 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

Corey Clark

#9. Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

Kurt Browning

#11. I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.

John McLaughlin

#12. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.

Kate Chopin

#13. I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

Anja Niedringhaus

#14. TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Eliza Coupe

#15. One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Hafez

#16. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

Alyscia Cunningham

#17. Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Anne Holm

#18. Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.

Maya Banks