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 poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz

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

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

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
Lester Bangs

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

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.
Rita Mae Brown

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

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday

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.
Trisha Goddard

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.
Dick York

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

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

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
Joe Pantoliano

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
Gary Burghoff

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
Jeanne Calment

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
Donald O'Connor

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.
Lynn Johnston

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.
Steve Lacy