P. J. O'Rourke

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

American Comedian

Deborah Eisenberg

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.

American Writer

Erin Foster

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.

Louis Armstrong

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.

American Musician

Sara Cox

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

English Entertainer

Waka Flocka Flame

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

Maria Shriver

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

American Journalist

Jeff Bridges

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

American Actor

Oscar Wilde

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

Irish Poet

Patti Smith

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

The term often describes settings related to cities or towns rather than nature or rural areas.

Urban Setting

Gutters can symbolize neglect if they are not cleaned regularly, which can lead to blockages.

Maintenance Issues

Used in the context of books or magazines, it's related to the physical aspects of printing.

Publishing Specific

When discussing book design, the gutter refers to a non-print area that helps readability.

Not Visible Text

Using 'gutter' metaphorically often paints a dismal, degraded picture of a situation or life.

Negative Connotation

The metaphorical use can evoke strong emotions of pity, disgust, or concern for societal issues.

Emotional Impact

Used as a verb in building, it suggests adding or repairing gutters in construction.

Construction Term

Describes a light source, like a candle, burning unsteadily, often creating a dramatic or eerie effect.

Flickering Light

Invoked in descriptive writing, implying a trickle or stream of a fluid motion.

Visual Imagery

 I try to imagine how scared they must be that their community is changing from what they've always known. Or someone who says they don't like teachers' unions, I bet they're really devastated to see their kid's school going into the gutter, and they're just looking for someone to blame. Our challenge is to find the compassion for others

Let's try emotional...

 of the flip turn. Rather than stopping and turning around, athletes could somersault under the water and get going right away in the opposite direction. This second cliff, the introduction of gutters on the side of the pool that allows water to splash off, rather than becoming turbulence that impedes the swimmers as they race.

Are athletes really...

 completely on the streets. I was in rehab three Well, I ran away from rehab three times. Another boundary pushing exercise. The last time I remember the director of the rehab looked at me and he said, "If you leave, you will end up in the gutter. You will never amount to anything,

Cory Richards: Pushing...

 what they've always known or someone who says they don't like teachers unions I bet they're really devastated to see their kids school going into the gutter and they're just looking for someone to blame our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them

Sally Kohn: Let's try...

 for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing A life can be rich like the soil Make food of decay Turn wound into highway

"The Nutritionist" by...

 the other day this is a streetside nursery and what they do there is they divert the rainfall from the street into a gutter and they can have water throughout the year throughout the dry season because of that in these pools in

Solving problems with...

 gaskets and silicone seals provide a first layer of protection any water that gets past them will be drained away by gutters built into the aluminum frame

Architects' Inspiration...

 the European yellowtail scorpion is rarely lethal we won't want to lie around in this gutter after a skinful there are now three separate colonies of

Crayfish Turf Wars PIPE...

 we fight for something truly greater than ourselves tonight we ride dr. wahrman boss cal gutter

THE RAID ON OSAMA BIN...

 I'm pretty gutter a person without all the pieces on your mom I tried to grasp