Dirty Construction Quotes & Sayings

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board. — James Frain

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money ... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it. — Adam Carolla

With each mile we put behind us, I felt the air grow lighter in my lungs. It was as if the city had been one large pressure cooker, simmering in its own juices. With the top down on the coupe and a stalwart, man-made breeze blowing steadily in my face, I tallied the city's many summertime brutalities: the heat that radiated from the gray asphalt and made the air dance in wavy shimmers; the stagnant ponds in Central Park that turned a milky, putrid, almost phosphorescent green and incubated countless mosquitoes; the blasts of hot dirty air that breathed upward from every subway grate; oh, and how the loud noises pouring from construction sites even somehow seemed to further agitate and heat the air! — Suzanne Rindell

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first. — Gherman Titov

You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written. — Georgia Clark

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. — Stephen Hawking

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black — Joe Biden

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. — Matthew Perry

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. — Tamara Feldman

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site. — Warren Farrell

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. — Ned Vizzini

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries. — Ned Beauman

A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.'
'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is, — Doris Lessing

After the raid, the neighborhood was officially repossessed by the city of Portland, and a number of the houses were razed. The plan was to set up new low-income condos for some of the municipal workers, but construction stalled after the terrorist incidents, and as I cross over into the Highlands, all I see is rubble: holes in the ground, and trees felled and left with their roots exposed to the sky, dirty, churned earth, and rusting metal signs declaring it a hard-hat area.
It's so quiet that even the sound of my wheels as they turn seems overloud. A thought comes to me suddenly, unbidden - Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie - the old rhyme we used to whisper as kids when we passed a graveyard.
A graveyard: That's exactly what the Highlands is like now. — Lauren Oliver

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves. — Natsuo Kirino

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately. — Piet Mondrian