Top 100 Quotes About Stink
#1. Find something you'd want to keep doing forever," she said, "even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky, with lots of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.
Lisa Graff
#2. 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
#4. Your brothers have set off a stink bomb in the second-floor boys' lavatory,
James Patterson
#5. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
Simone Elkeles
#6. The flashlight beam swept side to side, cutting a darkness clogged with clouds of dust so thick he could almost grasp them, fouled with the murky stink of mildew.
Cole McCade
#7. Is he about to kiss me? Did he eat garlic too or was I the only one? 'Cause if Ric didn't eat garlic then my breath's gonna stink and he'll think ... Oh for fuck sake, shut up internal dialogue!
Zathyn Priest
#8. Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
Aldous Huxley
#9. 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
#10. I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.
Patti Hansen
#11. I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.
Ryan Miller
#12. With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
George Burns
#13. Elena gave a low laugh. "Maleeshka, little one, it's me you're talking to, not the Cossack. I am a whore and I know the smell of men and the smell of sex. You stink of both.
Kate Furnivall
#14. Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.
Lawrence Block
#15. It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
Baron De Montesquieu
#16. When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.
Cedric Nye
#17. Ha ha," he told her. "I get it. Very funny. Everyone loves a good deaf joke. Hey, why did God make farts stink? So deaf people could enjoy them, too." When
Joe Hill
#18. Hello, I'm a human. My job is to hunt things and hope that my egotism soars after I kill countless creatures that didn't stand a chance against running away, or harming me, in the first place....Also, I stink of week old carcass.
Kyle Smith
#19. HE: History has no smell.
ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present.
Jeanette Winterson
#20. The place smelled of sweat and burned coffee and the passage of time, which held its own moldy stink.
David Baldacci
#21. If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.
Philip K. Dick
#22. Edible. But I still hated the shows and hated myself for hating them. The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. The speakers were always turned up so high that the music blared, causing my ears to ring so
Gayle Forman
#23. I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
Clay Aiken
#24. Rich in odor-producing sulfides, the meaty poop of carnivores tends to smell horrendous. As for their herbivore prey? A high-fiber, leafy diet exits the body without making much of a stink.
Deuce Flanagan
#25. Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.
Bob Hope
#26. Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
Gene Ween
#27. Jane gave me an expression she called the "stink-eye." I returned it with the bitch-brow. And we sat back and let the two expressions battle it out.
"What do we do now?" Andrea whispered to Gabriel.
"Stay still and try not to attract their attention?" Gabriel whispered back.
Molly Harper
#28. Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. - Sir Thomas Wyatt
David Johnson
#29. 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
#30. Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.
Gil Brewer
#31. All this. They have all this, and what do we get? Walls and tickets and concrete and stink. Rations and hopelessness and rage. I hate them, she said, the malice in her words like the lingering taste of a bad kiss.
Anna Silver
#32. Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.
Isobelle Carmody
#33. Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.
J.E. Fison
#34. Yours is ... il sent comme lavande."
Is that French for 'You stink'?"
It means 'lavender'."
Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.
Lynn Viehl
#35. 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
#36. Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.
Jack Gantos
#37. Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.
David Letterman
#38. Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. Does life really stink or are you sniffing in the wrong places?
Kristi Lynn Davis
#40. I see you giving my sweater the stink eye, mister.
Daisy Prescott
#41. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
Robert A. Heinlein
#43. Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.
Terry Pratchett
#44. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then
Carolyn Brown
#45. 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
#46. Mom calls me Patch-a-roo and Patch-a-roo-ny. She usually croons these names to me or crows them as if she's imitating the rooster. I know this is a little odd, but I'm a really special dog. Of course, sometimes she calls me Stink-a-roo.
Lea Beall
#47. He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. Instead I learned that the poor usually stay poor. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing.
Charles Bukowski
#49. Love? Dude. It's like a fart. You don't even know it's happening, but all of a sudden,it crawls up the crack of your ass and then the stink hits you.
Ann Everett
#50. I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#51. Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.
Frank Zappa
#52. Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.
Joyce Meyer
#53. 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
#54. This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.
Larissa Lai
#55. I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy.
Rebecca West
#56. Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. One thing about a skunk - once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.
Kim Harrison
#60. People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret.
Donna Lynn Hope
#61. Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
Jim Slattery
#62. What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
Jim Thompson
#63. Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
Francis Chan
#64. You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.
Jaffe Cohen
#65. Where are the gods
the gods hate us
the gods have run away
the gods have hidden in holes
the gods are dead of the plague
they rot and stink too
there never were any gods
there's only death
Ted Hughes
#66. Perhaps it was the flabby stink of seared flesh that was making me feel peculiar; that, and the smoke from the candles on the tables and the borborygmic blarings of the three-piece band.
John Banville
#67. If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
Jack Kerouac
#68. I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian
#69. Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
Stanislaw Lem
#70. Excuses are like backsides. Everybody's got one, and they all stink.
Becky Monson
#71. Do you want children?' 'What?' He stared at her, nonplussed. 'Children,' she persevered. 'Small, screaming human beings that stink and break everything you own-
Charlotte E. English
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. There was the stink of burning martyr in the air.
Lauren Groff
#75. Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!
Zig Ziglar
#76. I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
Anton Chekhov
#77. 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
#78. I wanted the rattle of New York around me, I wanted stink and strangers and the sour dank air of the IRT clutching me to its bosom. I wanted hustle and bustle. I wanted to know that millions of lives were playing out at my doorstep, and not one of them gave a damn about my little problems.
Beatriz Williams
#79. And he told Stink about a saint he had tempted a thousand generations ago. Satan had mocked the Enemy's ridiculous claim of omnipotence. "Does God have the power to make a rock so big that he cannot move it?" Satan asked. The saint looked at him. "Yes," he said. "And then He would pick it up.
J. Mulrooney
#80. I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.
K. Martin Beckner
#81. Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.
Shelly Mazzanoble
#82. Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.
Iyanla Vanzant
#83. Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you?
Kim Harrison
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Not much makes me feel uncomfortable about sexuality. It's the most natural thing in the world. I don't really get why people make such a stink. It's like being embarrassed of hunger or thirst.
Chloe Cole
#87. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
Tim O'Brien
#88. If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
Katherine Paterson
#89. Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.
Rajneesh
#90. You said you wanted Superman. And when Superman comes along, you give him the stink eye."
"I did not."
"Yes you did," Steve said. "If looks could kill, poor Superman would be a goner.
Ute Carbone
#91. Life is like water . If we stop at a point it'll start to stink so it must be a steam which will keep moving on and will never stink ..
Feel the difference between the water that never flows it stinks and the water that never stops its fresh
Arfa Zainab
#92. Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#93. Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#94. What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
Caryl Churchill
#95. When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
Hank Azaria
#96. Because that's what normal people do when everything goes sideways. They pick up all their shit and make something that doesn't stink.
Mia Storm
#97. If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
Barbara Kingsolver
#98. Getting behind the wheel, he said, "You're filthy, and you stink. You're not going to be a lot of trouble about taking a bath, are you?" The dog yawned. By
Dean Koontz
#99. 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
#100. Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
Charles Spurgeon
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