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• I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
  How I was put on a platter and laid
  between the mayonnaise and the bacon.
  The rhythm of the refrigerator
  had been disturbed.

  Anne Sexton

  Mayonnaise, Remember, Eating

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

  John Ashbery

  Events, Doe, Inevitable

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

  Michelle Malkin

  Ponds, Scum, Biofuels

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• During a heat wave every dude stinks.

  Craig Benzine

  Heat, Wave, Heat Wave

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• You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!

  Garrison Wynn

  Example, Ifs, Fronts

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• Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too.

  Jim Cornette

  Garbage, Household

  "I'm Jim Cornette and that's my opinion (Teil 2)". World Wrestling Federation's "Raw Is War" #231, www.cagematch.net. October 27, 1997.

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• Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

  Thelma Harper

  House, Matter, Cleaning

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• I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Thinking, Years

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• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  Haley Joel Osment

  People, Trying, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

  Rebecca West

  Race, Different Nationalities, Deeds

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.616, Open Road Media

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• Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Nice, Quiet, Claws

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Impact, People, Suffering

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• No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?

  Patrick Ness

  Beautiful, Hate, Air

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Something stinks here, and this time, it's not just him.

  Triple H

  Wwe

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• I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Smell, Female

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• My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Hurt, Morning, Jesus

  Song: My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus

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• 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.

  Wanda Sykes

  Couple, Cutting, Trying

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• I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

  D. B. Sweeney

  Editors, People, Film

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• What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

  Jim Thompson

  Smell, May, Stores

  Jim Thompson (2014). “Murder at the Bijou”, p.43, BookBaby

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• We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

  "Jerry Seinfeld Gets Brutally Honest About Advertising in This Hilarious Speech at the Clios". www.adweek.com. October 02, 2014.

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• fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

  Jeff Kinney

  Visitors, Fishes

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• He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Dick Wolf

  New York, Communication, Mean

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• Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

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