Garbage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
-- Alex Steffen -
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
-- Betsey Johnson -
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
-- Beverly Sills -
The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?
-- Big Daddy Kane -
The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
-- Bill Bowerman -
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
-- Bob Seger -
I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
-- Burt Lancaster -
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
-- C. J. Cherryh -
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
-- Carl Bernstein -
Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
-- Christy Carlson Romano -
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
-- Cleveland Amory -
I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.
-- D. T. Max -
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
-- David R. Brower -
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
-- David R. Brower -
My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
-- Demetri Martin -
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
-- Diane Keaton -
I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well.. the garbage.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere,
-- Donovan McNabb -
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
-- Florynce Kennedy -
I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.
-- Grant Cardone -
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
-- Guy Debord -
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
-- Henry James -
It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn't I take it out and eat it?
-- Hoda Kotb -
Thats what her cars do," Lula said. "They explode. But I gotta tell you this was the best. This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck. One time her truck got hit with an antitank missile. That wasn't bad either, but it couldn't compare to this.
-- Janet Evanovich -
When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.
-- Janette Barber -
Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!
-- Jay-Z -
I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.
-- Jeremy Lin -
I am saying ***** hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out.
-- Jerry Falwell -
Hulk Hogan, you are a household word but so is garbage and it stinks when it gets old too.
-- Jim Cornette -
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
-- Jodi Picoult -
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
-- John Mulaney -
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
-- John W. Gardner -
If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.
-- Justin Halpern -
I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.
-- Kalan Sherrard -
The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.
-- Katherine Boo -
The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.
-- Kayla Mueller -
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
-- Ken Livingstone -
If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.
-- Kris Carr -
I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
-- Lake Bell -
It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.
-- Lauren Holly -
If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.
-- Lee Marvin -
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there
-- Lloyd Bridges -
I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.
-- Lucy Walker -
All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.
-- Margaret Stohl -
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
-- Mark Twain -
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news,
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
-- Michael E. Mann -
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.
-- Michael J. Gelb -
I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.
-- Michael Kors -
Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.
-- Michael Mewshaw -
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.
-- Mooji -
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
-- Nelson Algren -
I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.
-- Nick Offerman -
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
-- Nick Tosches -
When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.
-- Nomar Garciaparra -
I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
-- Patricia Briggs -
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
-- Patton Oswalt -
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
-- R. L. Stine -
Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon -
One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
-- Robert Moog -
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
-- Robert Sewell -
Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.
-- Rocky Marciano -
Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we had clowns, we had them all. But we had one thing that was real, and that was me
-- Shawn Michaels -
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.
-- Shirley Temple -
Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
-- Spiro T. Agnew -
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
-- Steven Berkoff -
I'm wearing a garbage bag. I was put on my own worst-dressed list.
-- Steven Cojocaru -
I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
-- Taylor Lautner -
In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.
-- Terri Blackstock -
I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.
-- Tom Scharpling -
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
-- Tom Szaky -
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
-- Vanna Bonta -
I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.
-- Walter Dean Myers -
Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
-- Walter Dean Myers -
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
-- Wendell Berry -
In every human being there is both garbage and gold, it is up to us to choose what we pay attention to.
-- Werner Erhard -
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.
-- William Rathje -
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.
-- Ilana Glazer -
Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.
-- Len Elmore -
Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.
-- Michelle Gielan -
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.
-- Robert Payne -
Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.
-- Rondal Partridge -
You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.
-- Caroline Manzo -
Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.
-- Dane DeHaan -
The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.
-- Pipilotti Rist -
Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.
-- Rich Burlew -
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
-- Roger Tory Peterson -
I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.
-- Tom Sims
