quotes 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 -
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the ***** into law
-- Auberon WaughSource : Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
-- Charles ReznikoffSource : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
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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 -
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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 -
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Make good use of bad rubbish.
-- Elisabeth BeresfordSource : Elisabeth Beresford (2011). “The Wombles Go round the World”, p.127, A&C Black
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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 ZhukovSource : "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.
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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 SpeedSource : Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation
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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 FisherSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 StoneSource : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
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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 -
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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 -
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.
-- Louis DudekSource : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
-- Maisie Williams -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
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If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.
-- Richard Branson -
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
-- Richard BurtonSource : "Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N. Landrum, Morgan James Publishing, (p. 225), November 1, 2007.
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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
-- Robert CarlyleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
-- Robert SouthSource : 'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
-- Serge LangSource : Serge Lang (2012). “The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues”, p.19, Springer Science & Business Media
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Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
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I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
-- Sophie McShera -
Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
-- Steve Winwood -
We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
-- Eugene O'Neill -
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 -
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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 LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.
-- Justus KohnckeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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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 DyerSource : Source: www.movieweb.com
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
-- Rodman PhilbrickSource : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.45, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
-- Ronald Biggs -
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