Fillers Quotes

• I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Taken, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from May 22, 2012

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

  Mark Strand

  Lasts, Firsts, Language

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

  Douglas Coupland

  Two, Interesting, Three

  14 Copy quote

• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Couple, Journey

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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

  Dolly Parton

  Botox, Faces, Thanks

  6 Copy quote

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Effort, Useless

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.343

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Philosophy, Dirty

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 20, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Weather, Silence, India

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mad, Effort, World

  6 Copy quote

• 'Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Love You

  "Comedy Central Presents". Season 8, Episode 14: "Demetri Martin", www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.

  Steve Ells

  Mean, Color, Flavor

  "Chipotle to Stop Using Genetically Altered Ingredients" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2015.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Suitcases

  4 Copy quote

• You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.76, CornerStone Leadership Inst

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  4 Copy quote

• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

  23 Copy quote

• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on the album was fun for everybody.

  Corbin Bleu

  Song, Fun, Two

  "New Corbin Bleu Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Guy, Theatre

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feels Just, Space, Substance

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

  Keith Preston

  God, Religion, Acres

  4 Copy quote

• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  John Fogerty

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.

  Imogen Edwards-Jones

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

  5 Copy quote

• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Baseball, Fall, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

  Obert Skye

  Eye, Winter, Hungry

  7 Copy quote

• From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Loneliness, Pie

  4 Copy quote