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29 "Stink" Quotes

"To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen."

--- Alan Watts

#Caught Up #Masters #Caught

"Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer."

--- Aldous Huxley

#Prayer #Stink #Prayer Works

"Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right."

--- Alex Kendrick

#Mean #Attitude #Aroma

"Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down."

--- Alexander Pope

#Lumps #Strikes #Whole

"But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love."

--- Amy Chua

#Mean #People #Stink

"With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard."

--- Amy Sherman-Palladino

#Writing #Actors #Hanging Out

"Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often."

--- Amy Tan

#Emotion #Fangs #Blow

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

--- Andy Warhol

#Commercial Art #Stink #Artist

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

--- Angelina Jolie

#People #Sitting #Fabulous

"He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning."

--- Angie Sage

#Cleaning #Sock #Combination

"I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed."

--- Anne Sexton

#Refrigerators #Mayonnaise #Stink

"He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands."

--- Annie Proulx

#Smoke #Memories #Mountain

"I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."

--- Anton Chekhov

#Horse #Intervals #Knows

"Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable."

--- Archibald MacLeish

#Piety #Rich Man #Atheism

"There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery."

--- Quentin Tarantino

#Vietnam #Seventies #Scenery

"Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!"

--- Zig Ziglar

#Baths #Stink #Motivational

"I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!"

--- Z'EV

#Thinking #Improvising #Experiments

"I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks."

--- Artie Shaw

#Music #Jazz #Facts

"I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks."

--- Artie Shaw

#Emotion #Please #Entertainers

"From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery."

--- William Styron

#Thinking #Ignored #Reviews

"If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink."

--- Barbara Kingsolver

#Standing #Stink #Manure

"It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour."

--- Baron de Montesquieu

#Clean #Learning #Science

"For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!"

--- William P. Young

#One Day At A Time #Appropriate #Aspiration

"A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink."

--- William Kittredge

#Fishing #Lakes #Blow

"He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Conscious #Suspicious #Stink

"Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Visitors #Fishes #Stink

"All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'"

--- Whoopi Goldberg

#I Can #Okay #Acting

"I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?"

--- Warren Moon

#Feels #Knows #Bowlers

"If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you."

--- Wanda Sykes

#Massage #Cutting #Stitches

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