Garbage Quotes - Page 10

• I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Light, Wind

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• The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

  Wendell Berry

  People, Mind, Defense

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Land, Forgiving

  Barry Lopez (2011). “Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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• Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Long, Rodents

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• If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Nice, Angel, Knowing

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Beautiful, Garbage Cans, People

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• Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Needs, Looks, Like You

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• I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dream, Garbage Cans, Curls

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• Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a painting that would constantly remind them of the bone-chilling cold, the heavy snow that had to be shoveled, and the necessity of dressing up in survival gear to do nothing more than take out the garbage?

  Joanne Fluke

  Art, Winter, Dressing Up

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.120, Kensington Books

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• Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hair, Fancy Cars, Oil

  "The Dharma Bums". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 13, 1958.

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• The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

  Meles Zenawi

  Lying, Views, Farce

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• A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

  David Icke

  Father, School, Views

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• Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

  Betsey Johnson

  Real, Speed, Blinders

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• I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

  Jeremy Lin

  Prayer, Two, Three

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• I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hollywood, Absolutes, I Can

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• There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

  Phil McGraw

  Kids, Law, Garbage Disposal

  "Dr. Phil & Robin's Do-It-Yourself Marriage Makeover". www.goodhousekeeping.com. December 20, 2007.

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• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Country, Garbage Disposal, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.8, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.

  Lester Bangs

  Real, Past, Islands

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor

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• The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere.

  Donovan McNabb

  Tebow, Mark, Jet

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• The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office...

  Roseanne Barr

  Tired, Years, People

  "Roseanne Barr Places 6th In Presidential Election (UPDATED)" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Tv Shows

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Home, Ambition, People

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