Plastic Quotes - Page 26

• The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  Douglas Adams

  Wall, Fun, Men

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.95, Del Rey

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• That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Morning, Keys, Doors

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• And remember people: you might not be plastic, but you are fantastic!

  Louis Tomlinson

  People, Might, Remember

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• There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

  Raymond Chandler

  Glasses, Talking, People

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.83, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

  John Green

  Fake, Paper, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Mean, Tunnels

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• I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Blue, Lord

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• I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Believe, Laughing

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• We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone post shouted DANGER in huge red letters. Underneath in crisp black letters was written: IM-1: Infectious Magic Area Do Not Enter Authorized Personnel Only A second smaller sign under the first one, written on a piece of plastic with permanent marker, read: Keep out, stupid. “We aren’t going to keep out, are we?” Ascanio asked. “No.” “Awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stupid, House, Black

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.58, Penguin

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• If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, People, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Boys, Anubis

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

  Frank Zappa

  Motivational, Senior, Educational

  "Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" ("Freak Out!")". June 27, 1966.

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• Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.

  Rick Riordan

  Gun, Games, Nasty

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• Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

  Josh Lanyon

  Wine, Cups, Jake

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Imagination

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

  Koo Stark

  Fake People, Believe, Blood

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• Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

  Francis Galton

  Exercise, Science, Men

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• Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs...We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.

  Mike Hulme

  Spiritual, Ideas, Energy

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• One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Thinking, Reality, House

  "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.

  Erma Bombeck

  Self, Years, Water

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• You dont need money, or plastic surgery to be a star

  Lady G

  Stars, Needs, Surgery

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• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Baseball, Brother

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• I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.

  Jane Kenyon

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Jane Kenyon, “Notes From The Other Side”

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• No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

  Mario Testino

  Emotional, Magic, Noses

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• Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

  David Byrne

  Art, Makeup, Brain

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