Rotten Quotes - Page 4

• Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Attitude, Ruins

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• 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, Enough, Spoiled

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• 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, May, Reason

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• 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

  Fruit, Culture, Use

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• I would not knock old fellows in the dust
  But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
  His weapons were the old heart in his bust
  And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Dust, Teeth

  John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”

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• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Routine, Gone

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Father, Men

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

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• Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Annoyed, Castles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• 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

  Answers, Growing, Lasts

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a rotten lottery.

  John Waters

  Life Is, Lottery

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• It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

  George Saunders

  Guy, Way, Normal

  George Saunders (2013). “Home: Family Snapshots”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Bill Murray

  Cake, Play, Guy

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• 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, Want

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

  Louis Zamperini

  Kids, Excitement, Get Away

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

  Henry Rollins

  People, Johnny Rotten, Made

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

  Brian Johnson

  People, Punk, Ripped

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

  Billy Connolly

  Blow, Thinking, Make You Think

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• I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Law, Breathing

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Men, Alcohol

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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

  John Lydon

  Dying, Glorious, Can Do

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.261, Picador

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• I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

  John Lydon

  Dog, Lap, Leashes

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• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Thinking, Apples, Effort

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

  George Clooney

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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