Recycling Quotes:

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

- Alex North

topic: Writing, People, Recycling

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Kids, House, Recycling, Reuse

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

- Armistead Maupin

topic: Fiction, Shelter, Recycling

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

- Barbara Amiel

topic: Vortex, Speech, Recycling

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Degradation, Substance, Recycling

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Friendly, Recycling, Trash, Eco

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

- Bill Nye

topic: Kids, Want, Recycling

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

- Bonnie Wright

topic: Stuff, Recycling, My Family

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

- Conrad Veidt

topic: Thinking, Order, Recycling, Looseness

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

- Dixie Lee Ray

topic: Principles, Recycling, Birth

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

- Dorothy E. Denning

topic: Leaving, Recycling

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

- Ed Begley, Jr.

source: Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.ecomall.com.

topic: Buying, Recycling, Environment, Recycled

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Recycling, Social, Boxes, Recycled, Cardboard Boxes

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

topic: Class, Recycling, Week

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

- Eric Cantona

topic: Sports, Recycling, Moments, Good Moments, Best Moments

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

- Fay Weldon

source: "This Much I Know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

topic: Believe, Recycling, Kind

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

- Gary Busey

source: "I'm with Busey". Comedy, Reality-TV, www.imdb.com. (2003- ).

topic: Drinking, Blood, Recycling

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

- Helmut Jahn

topic: Woods, Recycling, Natural, Natural Materials, Synthetic

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

- Jerry Greenfield

topic: Packaging, Want, Recycling

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

- Jim Harrison

topic: Angel, Earth, Recycling

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Agents, Action, Recycling

I much prefer the modern world.

- Keith Henson

topic: World, Recycling, Modern, Modern World

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

- Marlee Matlin

topic: Today, Hearing, Recycling, Hearing Aids

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

- Martina Navratilova

topic: Gay, Movement, Recycling

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

- Mary Douglas

topic: Worry, Done, Recycling

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

- Michael E. Mann

topic: Garbage, Recycling, Plans

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

- Michael Hutchence

topic: Attitude, People, Recycling, Idolized

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

- Mike Quigley

topic: Recycling, Feels

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

- Neil LaBute

topic: Names, Giving, Recycling, Disposable

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

- Paul Lynde

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mystery, Recycling, Hell

I prefer fact to fiction.

- Richard Attenborough

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Facts, Fiction, Recycling

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

- Richard Briers

topic: Theatre, Tvs, Recycling

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

- Richard Karn

topic: Paper, Recycling, Plastic

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

- Ruth Ann Minner

topic: Ideas, May, Recycling, Delaware

Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

- Lisa Germano

topic: World, Recycling, Conscious

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Support, Paper, Recycling

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

- Reese Roper

topic: Recycling, Jokes

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

- Tishuan Scott

topic: Agriculture, Wish, Recycling

A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the state and recycling it into their private bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of that, so it's not just one person. It's a kind of web of people doing that, and that's how the system stays in power and how people stay in control.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: People, Recycling, Kind, Taking Advantage

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Recycling, Form, Better Late Than Never

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

- Paul R. Ehrlich

source: "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

topic: Views, Recycling, Environment

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

- Susan Sontag

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Fundamentals, Recycling, Modern, Duplication

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

- Susan Sontag

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Thinking, Recycling, Procedures

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

- Jodie Foster

topic: Recycling, Film, Cents

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

- Banksy

source: "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

topic: Hero, Needs, Recycling, Wall And Piece

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

- Boyd K. Packer

source: Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Use, Reuse, Recycling

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Dying, Want, Recycling, Scorned

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

- Sarah Palin

topic: San Francisco, Way, Recycling

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

- Eric Schmidt

source: "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

topic: Technology, Needs, Recycling, Business Leadership

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

- Nikki Reed

topic: Important, Recycling, Materials

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

- Norman Cousins

topic: Happy Birthday, Forgiveness, Recycling