#gutter

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#looking #some #stars #us

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. ↗

— Patti Smith

#gutter #i #maybe #paris

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model. ↗

— Ville Valo

#before #best #best friend #born #brother

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#despise #either #go #gutter #hurl

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#always #change #end #gutter #had

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter. ↗

— Susan Powter

#bills #cash #dance #enlightening #gutter

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#determined #drawing #england #gutter #keep