Pico Iyer

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Indian Writer

Sylvia Earle

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

American Scientist

David Trimble

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

Irish Politician

Martha Plimpton

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

American Model

Chris Cornell

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

American Musician

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

American Journalist

Picture a wet, dirty substance like the mud you'd avoid stepping in.

Visual Imagery

Sludge often implies something undesirable and inconvenient.

Negative Connotation

It’s usually thicker than water but more fluid than compact soil.

Consistency Clue

Use 'sludge' to refer to waste byproducts in a manufacturing or treatment setting.

Industrial Context

Mentioning sludge can indicate a discussion about environmental impact and disposal issues.

Environmental Concern

Sludge is often associated with the steps taken to make it less harmful, such as digestion or incineration.

Treatment Processes

Recognize 'sludge' as a slow, heavy style of music, not just a substance.

Music Genre

Sludge music is often linked with a 'doom and gloom' atmosphere and subculture.

Cultural Association

 enormous amount -- first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow. It's tied to the sand. And then you've got to use a lot of steam to separate it, which only works at today's oil prices.

Juan Enriquez: Using...

 my eyes glow white, and I hold this thing for I could speak to the good-for-nothing in a language he maybe understands. Click-click! And the good-for-nothings become good-for-disappearing into whatever toxic waste, chemical sludge shithole they crawled out of. And it's just me and janitor man.

My journey from Marine...

 and they're able to see through all the, sort of, odor sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal. But what would happen if one of you was infected with malaria? Well, let's just have a quick look at the malaria life cycle. So it's quite complex,

How we're using dogs to...

 It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth.

Carolyn Porco: This is...

 of water on top of still very safe solid sea ice although not very fun to travel through and we travels through this four days is about calf deep water that we sludge through by this time where it's led to a wreck there was holes in them

Sarah and Eric...

 it as this sugar sludge going through my bloodstream to the soundtrack of jaws like 29 million other americans i was sent home with a diet a prescription and a little booklet about my disease and as i dug into it i learned

The psychological weight...

 mostly in the form of microplastic fragments that pollute the food chain. Fortunately, there are microbes that may be able to take a bite out of this growing problem. In 2016, a team of Japanese researchers sampling sludge

Meet the microbes that...

 surface while a second submerged blade dredges the heavier settled sludge from the bottom of the tank all this solid sludge is then sent for further processing the remaining sewage then flows down

Where Does Your Sewage...

 If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge

Thomas Thwaites: How I...

 So, he's mixing the mercury with the sludge?