Garbage Quotes - Page 9

• We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

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• Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Politics, Causes

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.138, Macmillan

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• I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Tvs, Slime

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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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• 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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• I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Art, Winning

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• Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.

  Zach Braff

  Garden, Space, States

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• Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

  Max Lucado

  Life, Garbage Cans, Chapters

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Will Carry You Through”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

  Michael Jordan

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

  Neil Young

  Song, Baby, Night

  Song: Rockin' In The Free World

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• The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

  Bill Bowerman

  Men, Ideas, He Man

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• Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Sin, Enough, Confessing

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• The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Would Be, Cosmos, Stories

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

  Louise Hay

  Yesterday, Meals, Tonight

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• There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

  Alex Steffen

  Stuff

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• C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Littles, Language, My Favorite

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• In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

  Bob Ross

  Moving, Home, Rivers

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• A lollipop is a cross between hard candy and garbage.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lollipop

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• If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Running, Dog, Mean

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Garbage Cans, Dining, World

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• The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.

  Stuart Ewen

  Mean, Long, Desire

  Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

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