Stinks Quotes

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. (Sylvia Plath)
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. View quote
Harold Pinter
Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. View quote
Dustin Hoffman
I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that. View quote
Frankie Avalon
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. View quote
Wanda Sykes
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I believe [...] that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. [...] I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and-if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills-on the businessman's special to Tokyo. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. View quote
Rebecca West
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. View quote
Larry Wall
Being the survivor stinks. View quote
Sara Gruen
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity. View quote
Dick Wolf
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances. View quote
Irving Azoff
People claiming that some fundamental right is foreign to their culture-that stinks no matter who says it, fundamentalists, patriarchs, Leninists, metanats, I don't care who. They aren't going to get away with it here, not if I can help it. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
It [the city Berlin] stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs. View quote
Emil Nolde
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
Arrival at break of dawn. Veiled giants stood sleepily in wet mist on Manhattan... Yes, New York is really grandiose. But it stinks of burned fat, just like the sacrificial meal of the slain enemies among the savages. But nevertheless – crazy, crazy, crazy! Babylon is a kindergarten compared with this, and the tower of Babel here becomes the mass erection of a monstrous and senseless will. I am sympathetic. View quote
Max Beckmann
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy. View quote
Carmen Electra
Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, Tired out. After nine months he's shed All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope. View quote
Robert Graves
If one does not wish to be dissatisfied with one's lot at home, one ought to go where the flies and the stinks are, which means the Middle East. This is also a good way of reconciling oneself to one's laws and police force and the probity of one's magistrates. The really great British travellers, like Charles M. Doughty for instance, to say nothing of ‘Eothen' Kinglake, always went East, but not too far East. When you get to Southeast Asia you find no dirt or flies but the suspicion that you are in a tropical paradise, and then you go to pieces. It is essential, when travelling, to feel that you belong to a superior civilization, and the lands of the Arabs lavishly grant opportunities to nourish this conviction.... (Anthony Burgess)
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The whole thing stinks, Carr! View quote
Russell Brand
Everything stinks until it's finished. View quote
Dr. Seuss
I'm asking you to do an unpleasant thing for a decent motive. You don't want to do it, and I understand how you feel, but I'm trying to get you to see that your personal moral code isn't always the highest factor. In wartime, a soldier shoots to kill because the universe imposes that situation on him. It may be an unjust war, and that might be his brother in the ship he's aiming at, but the war is real and he has his role.” "Where's the room for free will in this mechanical universe of yours, Charles?” "There isn't any. That's why I say the universe stinks.” "We have no freedom at all?” "The freedom to wriggle a little on the hook.” "Have you felt this way all your life?” "Most of it,” Boardman said. "When you were my age? View quote
Robert Silverberg
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