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  • The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

    Self   Drunk   Touching  
  • I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

    "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".
  • No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

    Grace Paley (2014). “Begin Again: Collected Poems”, p.4, Macmillan
  • Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

    Truth   Science   Water  
    John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183
  • I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

    Music   Water   Together  
  • The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

    George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation
  • Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

    Men   Thinking   Lakes  
  • Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

    People   Black   Muddy  
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  • During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

    Glasses   Water   Brain  
  • What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

    Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Turtle in Paradise”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  • You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

    Voice   Church   Sound  
  • I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

    Memories   Long   Causes  
  • It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

    Water   Sound   Chicago  
  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

    Memories   Rain   School  
  • When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.

    Writing   Men   White  
  • Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

    Heart   Wind   Criticism  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55
  • In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  • Conditioning can be not a big heavy thing. (For instance:) I've got a brand new pair of shoes, by mistake you step on it and you make them muddy and dirty, I'm conditioned to go "Hey, what are you doing?" That's my conditioning, I have a response. So, maybe we have to learn to find the pause before we react, because reaction is our conditioning.

    Mistake   Dirty   Shoes  
    "A chat with Joseph Fiennes - star of historical thriller "Risen". Interview with Ann Schneible, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 10, 2016.
  • Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

    Wine   Beer   Proud  
    'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.
  • I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

    Art   Water   Musician  
    Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway
  • Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

    Men   Voice   Afternoon  
  • Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

    Life   War   Winning  
  • That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

    Fun   Lying   Thinking  
  • There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

    Wine   Beer   Knowing  
    George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.302
  • Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

    Zero   Land   Three  
    Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.180, Simon and Schuster
  • In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

  • I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

    Music   Guitar   Water  
  • It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

    Water   Trying   Useless  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing
  • falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

    Fall   Shoes   Flying  
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