Top 463 Rotten Quotes & Sayings

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Life is a rotten lottery.

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.

A rotten case abides no handling.

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 words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

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

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

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.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

I could write stories just as rotten.

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

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

Without work all life goes rotten.

I've never done Something Rotten either.

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

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.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

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.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

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.

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

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.

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.'

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

There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's a statement of fact. Because I've spent my life studying them so that I can predict them, so that I can warn people, because liberalism is destructive, as we've seen our whole lives. Aspects of liberalism in America under its control are in rotten shape, they're in horrible, rotten shape, and the people that live under liberal control are miserable and unhappy and constantly enraged.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I'm spoiled rotten, as my children would tell you.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

It was a wonderful childhood. They spoiled me rotten.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

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

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

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

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

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.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

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.

I'll admit, I like to be the aunt who spoils my nephews rotten.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

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

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.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Man is rotten with perfection.

There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.