Rotten Quote by Ellen Kushner

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

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…

— Lester Bangs

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and…

— Zhuangzi

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Samuel Johnson

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their…

— Miguel de Cervantes

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would…

— Orlando Bloom

“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.”

— Geraldine Brooks

As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary…

— Greil Marcus

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly…

— Robert Benchley