Guttersnipes Quotes & Sayings

We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was atime you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
Well, it's been that way all through history. — John Dos Passos

If I missed out on some really big action, I'm going to be royally pissed off! — Becca Fitzpatrick

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit. — Edward Sapir

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes
all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught. — Harold Pinter

If we think we have twenty-four hours to achieve a certain purpose, today will become a means to attain an end. The moment of chopping wood and carrying water is the moment of happiness. We do not need to wait for these chores to be done to be happy. To have happiness in this moment is the spirit of aimlessness. Otherwise, we will run in circles for the rest of our life. We have everything we need to make the present moment the happiest in our life, even if we have a cold or a headache. We don't have to wait until we get over our cold to be happy. Having a cold is a part of life. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for. — Andy Rooney

I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part ... I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control. — Joan Didion

To be brief, I say that since Fortune changes and men stand fixed in their old ways, they are prosperous so long as there is congruity between them, and the reverse when there is not. Of this, however, I am well persuaded, that it is better to be impetuous than cautious. For Fortune is a woman who to be kept under must be beaten and roughly handled; and we see that she suffers herself to be more readily mastered by those who so treat her than by those who are more timid in their approaches. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. — Spike Jonze

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. — Tabitha Suzuma

An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values — Sunday Adelaja

Dicks don't have brains. It's why men get into trouble — Kylie Scott

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. — Sean Penn

In an unexpected move, Bryce reached for my hand and pulled me to his side. "Play along. We'll straighten this out later."
Good Lord, the school hottie was touching me. It felt like I'd won some sort of geek-girl lottery. And depending on how this played out, Bryce could be the answer to my boyfriend problems. If he wanted me to cover for him, then he needed to help me with my overprotective brothers. — Chris Cannon

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve. — Alexander Smith

Love is the secret password to every soul. — Anthony D. Williams

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. — Sophocles