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Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. -- Roz Chast
Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving. -- Tinie Tempah
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. -- Grimes
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear. -- Steven Morrissey
I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene. -- Tom Felton
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. -- Andre Bazin
If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime. -- Larisa Alexandrovna
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore. -- Kode9
I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!' -- Sampha
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff. -- Ice T
Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'. -- Grimes
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self. -- John Banville
There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth. -- Cliff Robertson
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes. -- Beverley Nichols
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small. -- Colum McCann
Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know. -- Bohumil Hrabal
Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. -- Christopher Smart
Obscenity comes from grime. -- Christopher Hitchens
There wouldn't be no grime without me. -- Dizzee Rascal
I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist. -- Lady Sovereign
He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime. -- Chinua Achebe
From time to time, one must release the grime built up inside them to to free their emotions like the ocean. -- Suzy Kassem
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime. -- Lady Sovereign
If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now. -- Lady Sovereign
I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label. -- Lady Sovereign
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world. -- Nancy Pearcey
Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them. -- Junichiro Tanizaki

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