Garbage Quotes - Page 18

• Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

  Bill Maher

  Elephants, People, Magazines

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• I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

  Lucy Walker

  Might, Bears, Endure

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• Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Light, Joy

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• No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal is something that hasn't been in a garbage can first. And Kerrick poisoned us-' 'Not on purpose,' Kerrick said. 'The meat looked done.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Jobs, Thinking, Self

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• Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sweet, Guy, Dumpsters

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• You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.154, Parallax Press

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• With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

  Wendell Berry

  Money, Home, School

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• I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

  Diane Keaton

  Thinking, Maids, Married

  "The regrets of Annie Hall" by Simon Edge, www.express.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn't I take it out and eat it?

  Hoda Kotb

  Cookies, Cascade, Ifs

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• I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

  Janet Evanovich

  Brother, People, Gutters

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.559, Simon and Schuster

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• By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

  Gena Showalter

  Real, Men, Laughing

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.121, HQN Books

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• Thats what her cars do," Lula said. "They explode. But I gotta tell you this was the best. This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck. One time her truck got hit with an antitank missile. That wasn't bad either, but it couldn't compare to this.

  Janet Evanovich

  Car, Firsts, Truck

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.468, Macmillan

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• If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

  Justin Halpern

  Creative, Sweatpants, Bourbon

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I’ve got a lot of things I’d rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Nice, Hands, Talking

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.

  Michael Savage

  Pigs, Pieces, Sausage

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2009.

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