Muck Raking Quotes & Sayings

Their culture is narrowly interbred, and some personal relations border on the incestuous, so they float each other's boat and write almost identical muck-raking stories. Everyone in China knows why they are, and their China-bashing is green-lighting all of us to join the onslaught. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. — Noah Baumbach

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars. — Nancy Willard

Under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out. — Cassandra Clare

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford

I'm sorry if humans mistreated your people in the past, but if we don't join together now, it's time to admit that we're all just keeping busy while we wait for the Earth to die. — Andy Goldman

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can. — John T. Walton

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke

All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good. — William Gaddis

I wish I were braver, although I try. — Danielle Steel

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake. — Theodore Roosevelt

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. — Wynton Marsalis

It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack. — T.H. White

Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind — John Mayer

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. — Theodore Roosevelt

You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware. — Roger Zelazny

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. — John Madden