Stinks To High Heaven Quotes & Sayings

You seem to fit the part all right. Your technical record is first-class. Your disciplinary record stinks to high heaven.' He eyed his listener blank faced. 'Two charges of refusing to obey a lawful order. Four for insolence and insubordination. One for parading with your cap on back to front. What on earth made you do that?'
I had a bad attack of what-the-hell, sir,' explained Leeming. — Eric Frank Russell

Perhaps Islam is analogous to a carnivorous gene complex, Buddhism to a herbivorous one. — Richard Dawkins

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody! — Laura Amy Schlitz

Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us to invent the most undistinguished of corruptions. No orgies, no blood running in the street, no babies thrown off cliffs. No, we're sentimental people and we horrify easily. True, our moral fiber is rotten. Our national character stinks to high heaven. But we are kinder than ever. No prostitute ever responded with a quicker spasm of sentiment when our hearts are touched. Nor is there anything new about thievery, lewdness, lying, adultery. What is new is that in our time liars and thieves and whores and adulterers wish also to be congratulated by the great public, if their confession is sufficiently psychological or strikes a sufficiently heartfelt and authentic note of sincerity. Oh, we are sincere. I do not deny it. I don't know anybody nowadays who is not sincere. — Walker Percy

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. — Rob Pike

Tell troth and shame the devil. — Ben Jonson

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool. — Brian Setzer

No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman. — Cornelius Agrippa

A finger had to be cut, to save the hand. — Khaled Hosseini

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures. — Hayden Panettiere

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was. — John Green

At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias. — Carlos Wallace

What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is about proper directions and understanding the data. — Deyth Banger

We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names. — John Conyers