Rotten Quotes

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

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.