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Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don`t muck around - he`s strict with himself and everyone he works with.

- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

She dosn`t have any physical damage other than a slight bump on the head. So we don`t know if she was taking the horse to the pond for a quick drink and the horse spooked. Got bit by a bee. Who knows what. The horse may have bumped her in the head. She fell into the pond. It`s not too deep but full of muck and she wasn`t able to get out.

- Dan Anderson

When you`re in the muck, you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck, but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things, too. That`s the consolation of philosophy.

- David Cronenberg

There were 10 million nails everywhere you stepped. There was hazardous waste. There was sewage. The dogs don`t have nice steel-toed boots that they can wear. They have to walk through the muck and they are decontaminated and washed every time they get back from a search.

- David Richards

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

- Leonid Brezhnev

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

- Andrea Dworkin

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

- Andre Grant

I`m not going to muck up his win by even entertaining the thought that he had an unfair advantage. Whether he made the weight or not, whether he had an advantage or not, is not the point. He landed a great shot. I made a big mistake. I dropped my right hand, and I paid for it ... I chose to accept that fight because of my pride, because of my honor, and because people deserved to see a fighter do his job. If this fight doesn`t happen, this is bad for the sport.

- Angela Morgan

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

- Douglas Adams