Rotten Quotes

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

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

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

Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

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.

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.

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

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.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

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

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

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

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

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

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

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

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

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

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

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

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.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

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

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

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.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

I could write stories just as rotten.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

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

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

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