I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
I would like to think I am a little bit of a man’s man and a ladies’ man. I suppose, I’m a guy’s guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies’ man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.
‘Dirt Road Diaries,’ in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I’m excited for the fans to hear that one.
I hope that I’ll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it’s little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it’s all part of being a kid. It’s something we all went through.
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
Once archaeologists have shown possible ‘new’ ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn’t mean we aren’t digging in the dirt anymore – it’s just that we know better where to dig.
Passion: It’s what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.
I grew up with a brother racing dirt bikes and me riding my pony around, trying to see what the boys were up to.
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn’t be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, ‘Ooh, that’s a pretty little girl.’ They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn’t want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.
When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, ‘Stop it. Go play in the dirt.’
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn’t a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That’s just the way I was. I’m not sure. I might have been born with it.
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I’m not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don’t have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It’s an unrequited love with nature – a one-way love affair.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
To me, there’s a lot more bottom and ‘dirt’ with vinyl. When I say dirt, it’s good dirt. You need that raw sound in the clubs. To me, a CD is too clean.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity – a crash, an illness, some shock to the system – to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you’re living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.
If you prepare well and you play smart, there’s times you’ll dirt the ball or throw it away if you feel it’s not there, but there’s other times when you have to be aggressive and let your guys make plays.
My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It’s how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.
It’s the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases – tuberculosis, fevers, all that – and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don’t know exactly how.
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
Don’t be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn’t have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
In my 15 minutes of fame around ‘Diamonds and Dirt,’ it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they’re just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
I’m sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
I tell people, ‘I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.’
I thought it was crazy for people to eat dirt until I actually tasted it. I really liked it!
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
So it’s a really sort of mixed issue but I think, no matter whether you’re a Democrat or an independent or a Republican, the idea that a sitting president would attempt to leverage dirt on a political opponent from a foreign leader is just beyond the pale.
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs – or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and – as evidenced by YouTube videos – entertaining cats.
Remember, Donald Trump’s Plan A for reelection was to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, and then to use that to go after him.
People are sensible enough to know who’s dragging my name in dirt for publicity.
I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don’t believe in themselves.
Gardening is not my thing. You’re digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Absorbing a healthy amount of dirt builds your immune system.
We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet – but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
I’m a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.
I was always told that Republicans would marginalize me, push me aside and treat me like dirt. This could not be further from the truth. I have been welcomed with open arms, and even when I have disagreed on some issues, my views have been respected.
Me and my dad, we’d go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we’d go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.
I’m not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out ‘Thriller’ as they moved down the dirt streets.
If people view wearing bikini as a problem, then dirt is in their mind and not in mine.
