Rotten famous quotes

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
-- Adolf Hitler

#War #Doors #Rotten

Without work all life goes rotten.
-- Albert Camus

#Work #Rotten

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
-- Amy Tan

#Rotten #World #Woods

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
-- Ann Rule

#Men #Rotten

The rotten apple spoils his companion.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Apples #Rotten #Standards

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy

#Order #Principles #Rotten

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
-- Betty Smith

#Rotten #Born

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Liars #Lying #Rotten

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Beautiful #Skins #Rotten

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
-- Charles Saatchi

#Worry #Rotten #Enough

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Laughter #Rotten #Littles

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.
-- Chuck Barris

#Effort #Feelings #Rotten

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
-- Cleveland Amory

#Writing #Long #Rotten

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Cake #Rotten

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
-- David Attenborough

#Rotten #Finland #Places To Live

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.
-- Derek Jarman

#Eye #Wish #Rotten

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.
-- Derek Landy

#Boredom #Rotten #May

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
-- Diana Wynne Jones

#Mermaid #Rotten #Denmark

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
-- Dorothy Day

#Acceptance #Tyrants #Rotten

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Men #Use #Rotten

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
-- Douglas Sirk

#Meaningful #Promise #Rotten

I could write stories just as rotten.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Writing #Stories #Rotten

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
-- Ernest Cline

#Black #Three #Rotten

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Rotten #Bedroom #Habit

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Judgement #Rotten #Said

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?
-- Ford Madox Ford

#Years #Apples #Rotten

Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled and creased. Then, for the first time that Neverfell could remember, he changed to a Face she had never seen before, a frown more ferocious and alarming than either of the others. ‘Who the shambles told you that?’ he barked. ‘Spoilt? I’ll spoil them.’ He took hold of her chin and examined her. ‘A bit sadder, maybe. A bit wiser. But nothing rotten. You’re just growing yourself a rind at last. Still a good cheese.
-- Frances Hardinge

#Cheese #Rotten #Answers

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
-- Gary Burghoff

#Kids #Rotten

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Dream #Long #Rotten

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
-- George Eliot

#Rotten #Cheese #Born

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
-- George Horace Lorimer

#Mistake #Eggs #Rotten

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.
-- Ginn Hale

#Men #Rotten #Shapes

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Becauwse we really don't lov what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems - if you really loved it - you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. ... Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people.
-- Harry Crews

#Writing #People #Rotten

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
-- Henry Louis Gates

#Thinking #Justice #Rotten

What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'
-- Henry Sydnor Harrison

#Writing #Rotten #Toss

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.
-- Holly Black

#Monsters #Meat #Rotten

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Eggs #Rotten #Able

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
-- Jack Kevorkian

#Jail #Trying #Rotten

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.
-- James Agee

#Adversity #Choices #Rotten

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
-- James M. Cain

#New York #Cities #Rotten

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Society #Rotten

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
-- Jasper Fforde

#Payback #Rotten #Denmark

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.
-- Jean Liedloff

#Kids #Rotten #Born

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
-- Jeanne Calment

#Life #People #Rotten

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
-- Jenny Holzer

#Rotten #Abstract #Painter

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'
-- John Lydon

#Nice #Say Anything #Rotten

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.
-- Joseph Estrada

#Country #Rotten #Congress

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
-- Joseph Goebbels

#People #Rotten #Spit

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.
-- Joyce Meyer

#Roots #Rotten #Fruit

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.
-- Joyce Meyer

#Jesus #Roots #Rotten

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
-- Judi Dench

#Home #Thinking #Rotten

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.
-- Judith Malina

#Use #Rotten #Wisdom And Experience

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
-- Karl Marx

#Rotten #Misery #Wealth

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.
-- Kathleen Hanna

#People #Challenges #Rotten

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
-- Kathy Acker

#Cracks #Rotten #World

Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!
-- Kazuya Minekura

#Men #Rotten #Holy

Man is rotten with perfection.
-- Kenneth Burke

#Men #Perfection #Rotten

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Rotten #Said #Contrast

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Kids #Rotten #Excitement

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.
-- Louise Hay

#Order #Giving #Rotten

Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.
-- Louise Hay

#Thinking #People #Rotten

There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Kitchen #Rotten #May

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Tree #Storm #Rotten

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Tree #Storm #Rotten

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
-- Mitch Albom

#Rotten #About Yourself

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.
-- Natsuo Kirino

#Faces #Rotten #World

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
-- Nicholas Culpeper

#Sake #Rotten #Tradition

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.
-- Noam Chomsky

#Real #Rotten #World

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
-- Ralph Steadman

#Rotten #Privilege #Stink

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.
-- Richard Watson

#Christian #Cutting #Rotten

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
-- Robert Cormier

#Hero #Rotten

This is a nasty, rotten business.
-- Robert Crandall

#Rotten #Nasty

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
-- Sarah Dessen

#Sweet #Giving #Rotten

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
-- Sloane Crosley

#Rotten #Truth Is #Novel

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.
-- Sonia Manzano

#Mother #Rotten #Physicist

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Silence #Catholic #Rotten

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
-- Steve Lacy

#Giving Up #Important #Rotten

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
-- Storm Jameson

#Rotten #Literature #Language

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
-- Timothy Thomas Fortune

#Expression #Law #Rotten

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!
-- Tobias Smollett

#Ideas #Water #Rotten

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.
-- Trisha Goddard

#Drinking #Rotten #Next

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.
-- Tsugumi Ohba

#Rotten #World #This World

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
-- Vanessa Redgrave

#Art #Mad #Rotten

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.
-- Walter Benjamin

#Rotten #Mundane Life #Privacy

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
-- Warren Buffett

#Business #Rotten #Lemmings

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
-- William Cobbett

#Rotten #Nasty

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.
-- William Rees-Mogg

#War #Rotten #Policy

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
-- William Shakespeare

#Memorable #Political #Rotten

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Rotten #Wonderful #Whole

It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.
-- John Fullbright

#Nice #Tomatoes #Rotten

I've never done Something Rotten either.
-- Nikka Graff Lanzarone

#Done #Rotten

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
-- Peter Cook

#Luxury #Done #Rotten

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
-- Rob Thomas

#Tomatoes #Rotten #Rotten Tomatoes

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.
-- Roger Helmer

#Men #Wind #Rotten

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.
-- Henry Blodget

#Tomatoes #Rotten #Way