Rubbish famous quotes

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Rubbish #Stuff #Sometimes

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
-- Allen Carr

#Hate #Thinking #Rubbish

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
-- Annie Lennox

#Flying #Leaving #Rubbish

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Pieces #Rubbish #Should

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the ***** into law
-- Auberon Waugh

#Law #People #Rubbish

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
-- Charles Reznikoff

#Lying #Rubbish #Bricks

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Men #Rubbish #Months

My paintings are rubbish.
-- David Bailey

#Rubbish #Painting

I am a rubbish flirt.
-- Dawn French

#Flirting #Rubbish

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good
-- Dmitry Pisarev

#Broken #Rubbish #Break

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Earthquakes #Events #Rubbish

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
-- Eddie Rickenbacker

#Military #Enemy #Rubbish

Make good use of bad rubbish.
-- Elisabeth Beresford

#Work #Use #Rubbish

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
-- Emile Zola

#Rubbish #Shellfish #Exquisite

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
-- George Eliot

#Past #Daylight #Rubbish

If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Giving #Rubbish #Use

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.
-- Harold Speed

#Perfection #Rubbish #Advent

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
-- Howard Carter

#Doorways #Lasts #Rubbish

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
-- Howard Pyle

#Memories #Childhood #Rubbish

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.
-- Isla Fisher

#Book #Rubbish #Dip

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
-- J. M. Coetzee

#Men #Rubbish #Holes

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
-- J. Norman Collie

#Rubbish #Chemistry #Compounds

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Real #Past #Rubbish

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Light #Sorrow #Rubbish

I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
-- Joanne Froggatt

#Reality #Next #Rubbish

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.
-- John Lennon

#Music #Writing #Rubbish

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
-- Jonathan Dimbleby

#Rubbish #Wonderful #Produce

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
-- Joseph Stalin

#Wind #Rubbish #Mercy

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
-- Kingsley Amis

#Dry #Rubbish #Authenticity

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
-- Larry Hagman

#Reality #Thinking #Rubbish

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.
-- Louis Dudek

#People #Mind #Rubbish

I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
-- Maisie Williams

#Sorry #People #Rubbish

The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.
-- Melina Marchetta

#Ideas #Way #Rubbish

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
-- Mike Leigh

#Want #Rubbish #Life Is

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
-- Milla Jovovich

#Appreciate #Salad #Rubbish

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
-- Morley Safer

#Rubbish #Pressure #Financial

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
-- Peter Paul Rubens

#Children #Soul #Rubbish

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.
-- Richard Branson

#Envelopes #Rubbish

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
-- Richard Burton

#Rubbish #Being The Best

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
-- Robert Carlyle

#Dad #Rubbish #Financial

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
-- Robert South

#Paradise #Rubbish #Athens

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
-- Salman Rushdie

#Names #Rubbish #Matter

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
-- Serge Lang

#Hygiene #Lasts #Rubbish

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor

#House #Rubbish #Sometimes

I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
-- Sophie McShera

#Dressing Up #Hair #Rubbish

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
-- Steve Winwood

#Networking #Rubbish

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
-- Eugene O'Neill

#Rubbish #Forget #Drink

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing #Stories #Rubbish

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.
-- Igor Levit

#People #Musical #Rubbish

A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.
-- Justus Kohncke

#Bridges #Special #Rubbish

It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.
-- Danny Dyer

#Scare #Rubbish #Scripts

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
-- Rodman Philbrick

#Good Riddance #Rubbish #Motto

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
-- Ronald Biggs

#Years #Paper #Rubbish

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish
-- Julio Iglesias

#Sex #Perfect #Rubbish