Quotes and Sayings About Rubbish
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A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
-- Agyness Deyn -
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
-- Allen Carr -
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 -
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the ***** into law
-- Auberon Waugh -
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
-- Charles Reznikoff -
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 -
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 -
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 -
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
-- Eddie Rickenbacker -
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 -
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
-- George Eliot -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
-- J. Norman Collie -
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 -
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
-- Jennifer Stone -
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 -
We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.
-- John Lennon -
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
-- Jonathan Dimbleby -
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 -
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 -
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