Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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Stink
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Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils"
Cynthia Lord
Author
"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine"
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!"
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."
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"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."
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"To smell, though well, is to stink."
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"To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen."
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"Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end."
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"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."
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"What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot."
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"If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink."
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"If you think you stink, you probably do."
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"Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer."
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"Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days."
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"I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink."
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"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?"
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"Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink."
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"You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink."
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"He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink."
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