Rotting Quotes

Timber faller. It`s the most dangerous, aside from combat, that you can ever have. There are a lot of ways you can get killed. A tree can "barber chair" - come back on you. "Widowmakers," which are dead limbs, can fall out. You can`t predict what a tree will do sometimes. You have to watch sawdust and make sure the tree`s not rotting. If it is, it might split on you. It`s dangerous, it`s hot - it`s hard work. You have a big chain a saw that`s rattling away and bouncing around, and you`re slipping and sliding and standing on land that`s sometimes nearly straight up and down. It can get crazy. On the other hand, I never wanted to work in an office under fluorescent lights. - On the toughest job he ever had.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

If I`d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

There`s just a stench of things rotting, decaying - dead seafood, poultry, other things I can`t talk about. It gets into your nose; it gets into your clothes. You can`t get away from it.

The building was literally rotting and tilting when we got it.

He came back to find the dogs` bodies rotting,

Total devastation, ... There`s a stench of natural gas leaks and rotting garbage and who-knows-what-else in the air.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.