Stinks Quotes
More Stinks Quotes
Look, my friend. I don't speak the language here, I've got no money, the food stinks, there's no rice, no beans. I'd rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country.
luiz inácio lula da silva— 1975
— Cited in: Emir Sader, Ken Silverstein (1991) Without Fear of Being Happy. p. 41
— After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
ralph steadman— The America's Cup, p. 47
I believe […] that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. […] I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills on the businessman's special to Tokyo.
stephen jay gould— Preface, p. 16
Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, Tired out. After nine months he’s shed All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.
robert graves— "Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Tom Robbins— Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)
I would also ask you to fulfil in an abundant measure your obligation for the revival of the glory of Hindu culture and civilisation, not from a narrow or bigoted point of view but for strengthening the very root of nationalism in this country. In this great land of ours where twenty-eight crores of Hindus live, the word Hindu sometimes stinks in the nostrils of many a son of India.
syama prasad mookerjee— Speech delivered at Benaras Hindu University Convocation on 1st December 1940.
I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— "Cologne" (1828).
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
larry wall— Usenet article <199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org> (1997)
In Köln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cologne; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124.
