Rubbish Quotes - Page 9

• As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Married, Ever After

  The New York Times, March 14, 1982.

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• My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.

  Catherine Stock

  Quality, Energy, Needs

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Block, Thinking, Flames

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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• No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.

  John Muir

  Lessons, Dull, Landscape

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Expression, Law

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• 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 Zhukov

  Giving, Use, Staff

  "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.

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• 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

  Wind, Mercy, Graves

  "140 Conversations with Molotov". Book by Felix Chuev, 1991.

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• [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

  Richard Dawkins

  Media, Innovation, Important

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• The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see — we shall see.

  Roald Amundsen

  Dog, Clothes, Fur

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• It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Writing, Egypt, Numbers

  "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.

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• My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Kids, Ipods, Stuff

  "Small Talk Mark Lawrenson: 'We had no warm-up, no warm-down, we drank like fish'". Interview with Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2011.

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• There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

  Jo Brand

  Genius, Lines, Mental Health

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• I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Aqueducts, Stories, Flow

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• The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

  Conrad Black

  Hypocrite, Government, People

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• For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Missing, Example

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• What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

  Raquel Welch

  Couple, Intelligent, Yesterday

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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

  Reality, Next, Tvs

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• The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

  Nancy Astor

  Sisterhood, Men, World

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reading, Book, Fiction

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Sorrow, Tranquility

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• 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 Fisher

  Book, Dip, Conversation

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

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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

  Shellfish, Exquisite, Quantity

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• people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

  Glenda Jackson

  Movie, Numbers, People

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• All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

  Bryan Robson

  Drinking, Player, Not Good Enough

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