Gutter Quotes

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

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

Left, Either, Rocks

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

Place, Keep, Room

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

Die, Maybe, Paris

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

Walk, Straight, Apt

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
Anthony Kiedis

Wanted, Everybody, Punk

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

Best, Dad, Friend

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

Nature, Fitness, Him

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

Change, Time, Yourself

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

Money, Two, Light

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

Guilty, Secrets, Throw

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
Maria Shriver

Politics, Journalism

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
Chet Huntley

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