Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
James Chiles

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
Shelley Duvall

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
Philip Zimbardo

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
Ken Russell

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
Jeffrey Wright

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.
David Campbell

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
Morgan Brittany

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford

The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
James A. Lovell

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Frank Miller

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
Roy Jenkins