A Quote by John Ashbery

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

John Ashbery

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John Ashbery
American - Poet
Born: July 28, 1927

And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

J.A. Redmerski

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Martin O'Malley

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

Gary Hamel

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

Albie Sachs

But then when you are on the training pitch and you give a pass away or something it affects you more and your head starts to go. It doesn't happen a lot but it does happen.

Nathan Ake

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William C. Kirby

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

Terry Pratchett

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

Andy Warhol

I don't believe anything is going to happen until it does, until you see your name on a paper or it actually happens and you have something in your hand.

June Brown

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

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.

John Heard

Losing definitely does stink.

Jrue Holiday

The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.

Stephen Hendry

I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.

Vishwajeet Pradhan

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.