Standing before him, the blight of idyllic thought and…

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

— Gustave Flaubert

“To feel someone’s life drain from their body by your hands . . . bad, bad people who need to be plucked from this…

— Tillie Cole

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Imagine that the country is like a dog. The terrorist attacks are like fleas biting the dog, but what the terrorists are really after…

— Dan Carlin

It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

— Marissa Meyer

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

— Meat Loaf

“the creature belched a cloud of stink, the smell like rotting meat.”

— Paul S. Kemp

“We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had…

— Miranda July

Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe,…

— Lilith Saintcrow

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

— John Updike

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar…

— Khalil Gibran

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have…

— William Eggleston

Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.”

— Carolee Dean

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

— Hopsin