Muddy Quotes

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

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.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.