#rotten

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #painter #rotten #wanted

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#life #make #people #rotten #sometimes

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

— Phyllis Diller

#beauty #core #deep #good #good thing

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#evil #makes #passionate #refuse #rotten

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#chinese #climbing #columbus #down #enter

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#generally #hasn #i #liar #lie

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#also #although #complain #deal #feel

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

#big #grew #had #heroes #his

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fruits #good #improved #men #rotten