Dirty

Famous quotes containing the word dirty:

    A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    The sky seemed so small that winter day,
    A dirty light on a lifeless world,
    Contracted like a withered stick.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word “sophisticate” means, very simply, “obscene.” A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a “sophisticate” means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)