Garbage Quotes - Page 16

• What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue...
  And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Eye, Heart, Company We Keep

  11 Copy quote

• If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

  Samuel Fuller

  Couple, Giving, Firsts

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Juice, Rich, Workers

  24 Copy quote

• As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

  Mooji

  Thinking, Grace, Rubbish

  34 Copy quote

• If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no
  stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like
  a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric
  stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop!
  That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start
  loving Christ and living for Him!

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Falling In Love, Men

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.4956, Thomas Nelson Inc

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

  J. J. Johnson

  Teenager, Garbage Cans, My Boyfriend

  J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

  35 Copy quote

• Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, House, Salary

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

  Aleister Crowley

  Privilege, Serious, Savages

  11 Copy quote

• I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Summer, Sweet, Unique

  8 Copy quote

• Figure out what depletes you creatively and get it out out of your life. (This doesn't apply to spouse and kids.) Give yourself permission to put garbage on the screen. A lot of days it's the only way you'll be able to keep going. You can clean it up later.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Kids, Giving, Able

  4 Copy quote

• I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Garden, Cities, Office

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Life, Book, Black

  Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Thinking, Garbage Cans, Buying Something

  6 Copy quote

• I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

  D. T. Max

  People, Needed, Knows

  Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

  6 Copy quote

• On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  Caity Lotz

  Fun, Jumping, Guy

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Caity Lotz". Esquire Interviwe, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Coffee, Fall, Black

  "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within". Book by Natalie Goldberg, 1986.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Want, Waste, Subway

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

  Todd Lowe

  Sports, Baseball, Book

  6 Copy quote

• The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

  Nick Tosches

  Kids, Men, Dinosaurs

  4 Copy quote

• Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among the beggars and rakers of the garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however trivial or mean, are no measure of its power. In the present instance the stage is a scrubbed gun deck, and one of the external provocations a man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.

  Herman Melville

  War, Mean, Passion

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.177, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

  John Lennon

  Music, Dream, Reality

  8 Copy quote

• The forgiving heart is capable of anything.
  I believe that deeply.
  And that's where in terms of becoming an empowered individual....
  when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say
  “I love myself enough -
  not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff,
  I'm talking respect myself -
  I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Heart, Talking

  21 Copy quote