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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. -- Sid Vicious
Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius
Rotten Attitudes ruin a team. -- John C. Maxwell
I've never done Something Rotten either. -- Nikka Graff Lanzarone
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I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. -- Rob Thomas
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten. -- Eric Clapton
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. -- Jack Kevorkian
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. -- Albert Camus
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently. -- Henry Rollins
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive. -- Henry Blodget
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. -- Henry Rollins
I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish. -- Carl Hiaasen
Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it. -- Brian Johnson
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there. -- Evan Daugherty
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. -- D. H. Lawrence
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. -- Michael Caine
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer! -- Gwyneth Paltrow
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. -- Hannah Arendt
Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is. -- Kathleen Hanna
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. -- Gavin Rossdale
Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. -- John Lasseter
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
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. -- Don Van Vliet
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. -- Don Van Vliet
I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience. -- Jeffrey Tambor
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks? -- Wes Borland
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
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?' -- Wes Borland
Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films. -- Catherine Hardwicke
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. -- Joan Collins
Without work all life goes rotten. -- Albert Camus
The rotten apple spoils his companion. -- Benjamin Franklin
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. -- William Shakespeare
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. -- Hannah Arendt
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. -- Henry Louis Gates
Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ. -- Joyce Meyer
No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza. -- Michelle Malkin
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality. -- Noam Chomsky
The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences. -- Louise Hay
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. -- Dorothy Day
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
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? -- Langston Hughes
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
Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves. -- Banana Yoshimoto
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals. -- Jeanne Calment
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with. -- Louis Zamperini
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. -- Phyllis Diller
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. -- Judi Dench
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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten. -- Ann Rule
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods. -- Patrick Stump
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. -- Samuel Johnson
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I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing. -- Les Dawson
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. -- Billy Connolly
If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve. -- Orlando Bloom
You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck. -- Joan Rivers
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth. -- Vivienne Westwood
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain. -- Eddie Redmayne
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
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. -- Michael Caine
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. -- Steve Martin
Life is a rotten lottery. -- John Waters
Man is rotten with perfection. -- Kenneth Burke
There's small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare
This is a nasty, rotten business. -- Robert Crandall
A rotten case abides no handling. -- William Shakespeare
Emotion is a rotten base for politics. -- Dick Francis
I could write stories just as rotten. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anger is the fruit of rotten roots. -- Joyce Meyer
Too much wit makes the world rotten. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The arts stop society going rotten and mad. -- Vanessa Redgrave
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. -- James Russell Lowell
This world is rotten. The rotten should die. -- Tsugumi Ohba
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way. -- Isaac Asimov
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather! -- Louis Sachar
A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
War on the cheap is always a rotten policy. -- William Rees-Mogg
Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten. -- Natsuo Kirino
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten. -- Ezra Pound
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place. -- William Cobbett
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare
Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they? -- David Gilmour
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. -- Dorothy Day
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. -- Jack London
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in? -- David Attenborough
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. -- Philip Sidney
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid. -- Gary Burghoff
...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw. -- Robert R. McCammon
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering. -- Jonathan Edwards
If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten -- Benny Bellamacina
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it. -- George Eliot
You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life. -- Betty Smith
Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul. -- Angelica Hopes
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. -- Jenny Holzer
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. -- James M. Cain
I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. -- Ernest Hemingway
A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world. -- Curtis Sliwa
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. -- Cynthia Ozick
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time! -- Jasper Fforde
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple. -- Benjamin Lotter
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. -- Charles Spurgeon
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. -- George Bernard Shaw
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. -- Sloane Crosley
Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato. -- Sarah Dessen
When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love. -- Mitch Albom
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. -- Julia Cameron
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. -- John Quincy Adams
Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core. -- Jamie McKelvie
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. -- Nicholas Culpeper
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist. -- Sonia Manzano
You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten. -- Isaac Asimov

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