Zitat des Tages über Faul / Rotten:
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
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.
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.
What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.
I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West.
Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.
