65 Stink Quotes On Success In Life
These stink quotes will inspire you. Stink, have a strong unpleasant smell.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging stink quotes, stink sayings, and stink proverbs.
Best Stink Quotes
- “I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say ‘You stink’.” ~ Clay Aiken
- “I mean it’s the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you’re out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It’s the most Darwinian, it’s beautiful, it’s brutal, it works.” ~ Jim Cramer
- “Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.” ~ Klaus Kinski
- “I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.” ~ Andy Warhol
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“Ninety-nine percent of opening bands stink.” ~ Gene Ween
- “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
- “Everybody acts like they’re in a movie in most movies. That’s why they stink.” ~ Jason Patric
- “If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.” ~ D. H. Lawrence , Stink quotes smell
- “I’ve seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won’t stink.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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“My love life doesn’t stink; it’s nonexistent.” ~ Kevin Eubanks
- “I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.” ~ Jay Mohr
- “I will not do a role that I don’t think I can do, that I’m not interested in, where there’s no humanity, that doesn’t have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I’ll just stink the joint up.” ~ Ron Perlman
- “There have been a couple of jobs I’ve done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.” ~ Clancy Brown
- “There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise – the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream – be set down alive?” ~ John Steinbeck
- “People do this a lot. They don’t seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they’re going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything’s not going to be made of leather, the world won’t stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you’ll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals — you’ll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.” ~ Russell Brand
- “I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.” ~ Jim Valvano
- “A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.” ~ Bill Parcells
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“You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.” ~ Kiersten White
- “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.” ~ Simone Elkeles
- “If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.” ~ Larry Wall
- “My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it’s missing, and what’s there stinks.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” ~ Sylvia Plath
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“War stinks! There’s nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it’s you or them.” ~ Michael E. Thornton
- “Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist’s oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.” ~ Harry Crews
- “If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils” ~ Roger Williams
- “Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.” ~ Prudentius
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“Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too.” ~ Jim Cornette
- “You can’t lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!” ~ Garrison Wynn
- “The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.” ~ John Ashbery
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“With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.” ~ George Burns
- “It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!” he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)” ~ Kim Harrison
- “…and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady’s perfume in his jailbird’s suit. And I’m left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.” ~ Italo Calvino
- “We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!” ~ Nicky Cruz
- “Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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“I wish everyone had the same chances,” I say. “Because it stinks a big one that they don’t.” – Catherine” ~ Cynthia Lord
- “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
- “He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers – and spirit itself will stink.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “During a heat wave every dude stinks.” ~ Craig Benzine
- “I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.” ~ Frankie Avalon
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“How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.” ~ Courtney Love
- “These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That’s the only thing that’s going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you’d better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.” ~ David Mamet
- “I’ve only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.” ~ Bridgette Wilson
- “We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
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“I’ve seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn’t stink. But if you’re empty and manipulative on stage, it’s clear.” ~ D. B. Sweeney
- “Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration’s enormous, taxpayer-funded ‘investments’ in politically connected biofuel companies.” ~ Michelle Malkin
- “A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.” ~ J. D. Salinger
- “Many people say “my life stinks”. Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “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
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“If you think you stink, you probably do.” ~ Buddy Rich
- “Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?” ~ Gary Hamel
- “There’s one thing I never did do, and that was stink.” ~ Merle Haggard
- “If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they’re not. They’re not offering a solution.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
- “If you write in the paper ‘Lee stinks,’ that’s not going to affect me. I’ll just laugh. And if you write ‘Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,’ that won’t affect me either. I’ll laugh.” ~ Derrek Lee
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“He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another’s nose.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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 - “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
- “What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That’s ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
- “I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It’s supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.” ~ Iliza Shlesinger
- “Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, “You Stink.” And you got to deal with that. It’s like being in front of the lions.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
