Rotten Quotes · Page 7

I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half.…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

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 -…

— Les Dawson

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that…

— Allen Ginsberg

I've never done Something Rotten either.

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight,…

— Wilbur Smith

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of…

— Dorothy Day

There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or…

— Richard Wilbur

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168…

— Catherine Hardwicke

This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that…

— David Sedaris

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

— Ernest Hemingway

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You…

— Marya Hornbacher

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you…

— Louis Sachar

“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever…

— Isaac Asimov

[Bernie] Sanders is fighting against a system. He sounds good. The system is rotten to the core.

— Louis Farrakhan

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

— Ralph Steadman

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.

— Sonia Manzano

“Feeling rottten is much worse than feeling just bad or sad. Feeling rotten is when it seems like no one else in…

— Tom Fletcher

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Curtis Sliwa

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would…

— Michael Caine

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz