Stink Quotes

• I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

  Clay Aiken

  Degrees, Shows, Stills

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• I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

  Jim Cramer

  Beautiful, Mean, Numbers

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• Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hate, People, Driving

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• I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Commercial Art, Mass

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• 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!

  Angelina Jolie

  Business, Believe, People

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Ninety Nine, Band, Cents

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• Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

  Jason Patric

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• If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cutting, Smell, Psychology

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• 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

  Hurt, Writing, Patriotic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Love, Love Life

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• 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.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

  Ron Perlman

  Thinking, Humanity, Roles

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

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• There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

  Clancy Brown

  Jobs, Couple, Thinking

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

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• There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Years, Two

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

  Russell Brand

  Butterfly, Animal, Wings

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• I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Children, Men

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• No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, Quality

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.8, Penguin

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• You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

  Kiersten White

  Flower, Sunshine, Evil

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• Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Opinion, Simile

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• If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

  Larry Wall

  Views, Helping, Reason

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Love Life, Missing

  "Not Forgotten", www.nytimes.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Success, Writing, Publishing

  Barry Kyle, Sylvia Plath (1976). “Sylvia Plath, a Dramatic Portrait: Conceived and Adapted from Her Writings, by Barry Kyle”

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• Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

  Harry Crews

  Fire, Lakes, Air

  Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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