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I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy. -- Chet Huntley
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. -- Patti Smith
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism. -- Maria Shriver
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde
I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters. -- Waka Flocka Flame
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I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. -- Miguel Syjuco
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. -- Anthony Kiedis
The feeling of the early '90s... I think it was more... It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining. -- Shameik Moore
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
I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair. -- Kate Winslet
I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think. -- Kevin McCloud
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
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
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
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
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
You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off. -- Pixie Lott
For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful. -- Deborah Eisenberg
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud. -- George Foreman
Homesickness for the gutter. -- Emile Augier
The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic -- Aesop Rock
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter. -- Noel Gallagher
You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter. -- Thomas Fuller
Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter. -- Raymond E. Feist
Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel! -- Charles Spurgeon
The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one. -- Kinky Friedman
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud. -- George Jean Nathan
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun. -- Eric Clapton
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter -- Anton Chekhov
Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men. -- Keorapetse Kgositsile
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. -- Gerald Priestland
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right -- Davey Havok
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand. -- Winston Churchill
In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter. -- Pat Paulsen
I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter. -- Robert Pattinson
Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE! -- Tupac Shakur
A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter. -- Debasish Mridha
I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you're along for the ride. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they? -- Lee Trevino
I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter. -- Ruth Behar
A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. -- Michel Faber
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding. -- Margaret Sanger
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter. -- Elbert Hubbard
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter. -- Bob Dylan
You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him. -- Dorothy Dunnett
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Have you dared to eat my son?" I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter. -- Jennifer Rardin
I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable. -- Dick Van Dyke
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty. -- Diane Ravitch
Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics. --
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. -- Stephen King
I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow. -- Cassandra Clare
Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb. -- Daniel Handler
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. -- Nicole Krauss
You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT. -- Eddie Izzard
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you. -- Charles Bukowski
You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at. -- Sammy Hagar

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