quotes about Junkyard

last updated: November 28, 2023

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.
-- Steven Weber

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Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
-- Roger von Oech

Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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“We're all just kids who grew up way too fast.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 26, 2013
“Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.”
“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
“A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.”
“The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.”
“Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'”
“I can feel the thunder underneath my feet”
“I like the noise of democracy.”
“This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster