Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...
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Related Shit is the tofu of cursing. DAVID SEDARIS This dudes nuttier than squirrel shit." -Ty Henderson MADELEINE URBAN Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people. COLLEEN HOOVER It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't... LOUIS C.K. I felt like shit, but it was happy shit. LAURELL K. HAMILTON As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad. J. LYNN If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k... SETH EISENBERG I got so much tarter i dont gotta dip my fishsticks in shit! MITCH HEDBERG I don't give a shit now, everything's been done. All that matters is you do it and you have a little... MATTHEW BARBER the shit is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S GWEN STEFANI Real recognize real and if you real ill speak to you and if i speak to you i fucks with you true shi... JANEA BROWN Shit end of the stick PROVERB Shit happens. Doesn't mean you have to step in it. But if you do I would buy a new pair of shoes. KILBURN HALL Don’t shout my friend; no one gives you the shit unless you make them. M.F. MOONZAJER He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other. PETER HEDGES It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes. STEPHEN KING oh shit it's shit STEPHEN KING I'll remember 1994 as the year that I ... ate shit. GREEN DAY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. STEPHEN CLARKE Your shit is for you, my shit is for me - Understand? DEYTH BANGER I don't like talking shit about men, men make a shit of themselves DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit DOUG STANHOPE The climate of Barrow is Arctic. Temperatures range from cold as shit to fucking freezing. STEVE NILES Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose. JOAN DIDION I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do. SARAH DESSEN One’s own shit doesn’t smell OLD RUSSIAN SAYING I can make an excuse. Damn, a 3 year old can make an excuse or I could just tell you I am a shit per... AMIR BENDAALI But what's this sh*t you said about you like to cut your wrists too?I say that shit just clowning do... EMINEM If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the jour... JASPER FFORDE Given the time that I had to complete the task...I think I did a shit job of it UZAIR SHAFIQUE If shit was a currency, we would all be rich. ARIEL KREZARIEN Bears shit in the woods. EVANGELOS VENIZELOS When all is shit, become a fly. JOSH HOLMAN Look. I was pissed off! That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one ... EMINEM Shit rolls downhill PROVERB Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! GILLES DELEUZE Shit floats to the top PROVERB He must be a king.Why?He hasn't got shit all over him. MONTY PYTHON Don't say something which isn't me... I am the Devil and I don't inspire of doing this shit! DEYTH BANGER hoo-leee shite! JOSEPH STATEN I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the stree... LAUREN OLIVER A young English couple was visiting with me one summer after I had been composting humanure for abou... JOSEPH JENKINS Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and ... MILAN KUNDERA The word 'special', as it is applied to disability, too often means 'a bit shit'. STELLA YOUNG But honestly? What women need?” Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. “Actions. Not words. So... PRISCILLA GLENN You can't turn chicken shit into chicken salad but you can put chicken shit into someone's chicken s... BLINK 182 Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. ... CHRIS ROCK The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to lab... J.R. WARD ...but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along. CHUCK KLOSTERMAN You're 16 years old, you don't know shit about shit, and PULL UP YOU'RE PANTS!!! DENIS LEARY Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love). CAROLINE KEPNES I'd use your opinion as an ass wipe;if i actually gave a shit. BEN DOVER As long as the (social, economical, political, environmental, behavioral ...) problems around me don... AHMED SIDDIQUI Money is sad shit RICHARD BRAUTIGAN The first draft of anything is shit ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first draft of anything is shit. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Please and smell shit SHANNY It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit... MILES DAVIS Butter yo shit. HANNAH HART niggas ain't shit. LIBIN SAID Holy shit, are you positive?" "As a pregnancy test a month after prom. DARYNDA JONES It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could never say that my shit is whac... EMINEM One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys SCOTT ADAMS a lot of shit happens , then we realise that life is so fucking unfair .. but guess what ? life stil... LOOKA AD Popatrz jeno. Kościół, karczma, bordel, a w środku między nimi kupa gówna. Oto parabola ludzki... ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI You have a top lifestyle, but shit money!! CHARLIE HARPER throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I That's shit and it hasn't anything doing with what I am searching for.... DEYTH BANGER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Bears shit in the woods EVANGELOS VENIZELOS Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made sh... DEAN CAVANAGH For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh... FRANK ZAPPA Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roar... SARAH J. MAAS If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it. DOUG HORTON The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens JANA OLIVER Shit, I have already read this.... MICHAEL POLLACK same shit, different day! ROSS PEROT Let's rock this shit. EMILY M. DANFORTH They’d just left when Zsadist came in at a dead run. “Shit, shit, shit…” What’s doing... J.R. WARD When they were around, ARP Synthesizers were the shit. Now I just hear about AARP and their interest... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists MILAN KUNDERA The mood is shit. Everybody's feeling down because of yesterday, it was crazy. ERICH WAGNER We were an us, Charlie. And holy shit, I can see why. TARRYN FISHER Swallowed my pride and shit lions. BRIAN SPELLMAN From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola UMBERTO ECO Ask me if I give a shit. JOHN GREEN Smell shit when one's bragging. TOBA BETA Holy shit. I’m a Smurf. ERICA CAMERON SSDD Same Shit Different Day STEPHEN KING Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't. MARGAUX BERGEN The reason why we get educated is so that we can take shit. PRAVIN PRAJAPATI [Still, if the proverbial shit does hit the fan, artists and managers like to know the top dog is in... ARTHUR FOGEL I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit JAMES LEE BURKE If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream? S. BALARAM I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma... WALLY LAMB Longed for him. Got him. Shit. MARGARET ATWOOD Don't shit on your own doorstep. UNKNOWN Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle. CARL HIAASEN Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when y... JIM BUTCHER
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