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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?
I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.
I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
My favorite weather pattern happens to be when it rains mud. Dust comes through. Rain on top of it. It rains mud.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
I would like to mud wrestle Angelina Jolie. She would probably beat me up, but I like a challenge and she is very sexy.
The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta.
Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.
Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.
If you put music on top of noise, it's like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn't taste like one.
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
There was no roof where we trained, so it used to get very hot during the day and the mud used to feel very cold during the evening.
I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.
I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.
Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!