Stink Quotes

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. (Ernest Hemingway)
But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love. View quote
Amy Chua
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee? View quote
Marcus Aurelius
With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. View quote
Ted Hughes
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. View quote
Don DeLillo
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. [Opening sentence.]. View quote
John Steinbeck
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning. View quote
Angie Sage
I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink. (Bridgette Wilson)
Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way. View quote
Edie McClurg
I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating. View quote
Jay Mohr
My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines. View quote
Patti Hansen
Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting King Louis XVI : You said it. They stink on ice. View quote
Mel Brooks
If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too! View quote
Angelina Jolie
Automatic poetry comes straight out of the poet's bowels or out of any other of his organs that has accumulated reserves... He crows, swears, moans, stammers, yodels, according to his mood... His poems are like nature; they stink, laugh, and rhyme like nature. Foolishness, or at least what men calls foolishness is as precious to him as a sublime piece of rhetoric. For in nature a broken twig is equal in beauty and importance to the clouds and the stars. View quote
Jean Arp
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. View quote
Jack Kerouac
They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder. View quote
Raymond Chandler
The worst thing to happen to the Jews since Mein Kampf...I can't look at it. It's so horrible. The Israelis that helped make this film were crooks. They never gave us the negative back, they never gave us statements - not that the film was worth anything...The lesson for Big Gus for young people is: Don't listen to anybody. We got lots of advice on that film from older, more experienced people. But the film stunk; it's a disgrace. What you saw was made from a half-inch video that somebody from Israel brought to us...The movie opened in Tel Aviv, but it opened the week of the Seven-Day War. So bombs were raining down outside, but we had a bomb inside the movie theater. (Lloyd Kaufman)
My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad. View quote
William Saroyan
The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit. View quote
William Saroyan
I'm doin' radio and there's a bag in front of me on the console that says 'Butt Stink' on it. Somethin' ain't right. View quote
April Winchell
If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought? View quote
Katherine Paterson
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