A Quote by William Cobbett

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

William Cobbett

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William Cobbett
English - Politician
March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol

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.

Zhuangzi

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.

Zhuangzi

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Nicholas Culpeper

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

Mitch Albom

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

Joyce Meyer

This is a nasty, rotten business.

Robert Crandall

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

Tsugumi Ohba

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Gardner Dozois

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

Bill Murray

It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

George Saunders

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

Eric Clapton

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

John Lydon

Whenever you're playing somebody who is, by all accounts, rotten, don't focus on the rotten stuff. That stuff will take care of itself. It's already in the script; the audience is already experiencing it without you having to add an extra feel of evil. Just play them like regular people.

Cameron Britton

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Ronald Reagan

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