Rotten Quotes

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

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

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

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

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

Without work all life goes rotten.

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

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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.

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

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

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

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.

Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

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

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.