Top 45 Gutter Quotes

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn’t. Music taught me how to live.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

I’m a doer and I just want to do it. Whatever attitudes, prejudices, stereotypical ideas that are in front of me, I will break them. But the only way I can break them is by getting a job, and if I need to start in the gutter, I will start in the gutter and work my way up. Money isn’t an issue.

The feeling of the early ’90s… I think it was more… It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining.

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.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

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

The gutter is Bertie Ahern’s natural habitat.

I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

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

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.

I have a lot of money, but I still feel broke. When I say I feel broke, I don’t mean broke in a financial sense, but I still feel like that kid from the gutter who’s still trying to get it, even though I’m at the place I want to be.

If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I’d go and get a job in B&Q before I’d reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I’m never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again.

Growing up, I didn’t know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn’t one of them.

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.

After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.

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.

I’m not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump – there’s enough of that going on.

I’m at work every day, I hold my life together – I’m not exactly waking up in the gutter.

It was not even that long ago when my acting career was in the gutter. I was just thinking that I didn’t want to live a life still going on auditions and not getting work. I wasn’t inspired or anything at the time, and it sucked.

Maybe I’ll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I reckon I’d be probably, like, in the gutter somewhere if I didn’t have music.

If it violates me physically, then it’s not worth it to me. There will always be another job where you don’t have to take your clothes off or have a gutter mouth.

Listen to ‘Dream.’ It’s just me all the way. It’s like raw. It’s gutter. It’s real. It’s authentic. It ain’t like nobody else. Don’t sound like nobody else, no nothing.

‘Cat?’ ‘Cat’ can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he’s in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he’s a cat.

It’s really hard on the poor Skid Row bums. They are getting the shock of their lives. There they are, lying peacefully in the gutter, not bothering anybody, and they look up and see a man in a red and blue spider suit go by. It’s enough to make them goon the wagon.

My first car was a Buick Skyhawk from, like, ’78, I think. I ran that thing into the gutter. It was shaped like an egg; it was cool.

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.

I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent.

I surprise myself that I’m not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven’t given up.

Drama is not great when it’s a roll off the curb into the gutter.

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

I don’t believe in gutter politics. I don’t believe in gutter journalism.

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.

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.

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.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.

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.

From where I come from, it’s gutter, dog. I look back on that and I think, ‘That’s strong.’ Without growing up where I came from, I wouldn’t be the man I am today, a strong minded individual.

My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.

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.

People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language.

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It’s only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor – and that’s just the men.

I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn’t even need to sing melodies. It felt like the perfect way to make my way out of the gutter.