Garbage Cans Quotes

• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Psychics, Rivers

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• Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

  Jay-Z

  Waiting, Have Faith, Steak

  Song: Guns and Roses

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• The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  House, Important, Pieces

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Dining, World, Rooms

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• Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Feet

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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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• The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Work

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Years, Guilt

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• My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, House, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dream, Frogs, Middle

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.137, Penguin

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• A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Guy, Punk, Trendy

  "Green Day: Keeping Their Edge". Book by Matt Doeden (p. 23), 2006.

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• One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Ambition, Night

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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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, Curls, Garbage

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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, People, Would Be

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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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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Details, Goes On, Dinner

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• You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?

  Jack LaLanne

  Athlete, Exercise, Fuel

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Guy, Body, Legs

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• 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

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• 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, Buying Something, Consumerism

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• Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

  Jessica Valenti

  Couple, Media, Ideas

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• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  Kacy Catanzaro

  Tired, Sometimes, Runners

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

  Les Brown

  Imagination, People, Peaceful

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