Plastic Quotes

• I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

  Buck Henry

  Future, Science, Want

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• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

  Lauren Willig

  Cousin, Reality, Historical Novels

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• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  Nick Cannon

  Awards, Fake, Gold

  "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.

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• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

  Ray Davies

  Pain, Philosophy, Men

  Song: Plastic Man

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• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  David Suzuki

  Addiction, Bags, Use

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• Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Art, Book

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• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Behavior, Social Psychology, Humans

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

  Jess C Scott

  Fake People, Inner Beauty, Ugly

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• One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

  Dave Barry

  Kissing, Cells, People

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• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Witty, Coffee

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Video, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

  Tia Carrere

  Lasts, Minutes, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Feel Better, People

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• You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

  Michael Jackson

  Vacation, People, Hollywood

  "Michael Jackson-Turned White From Disease-Vitiligo! Tragic!". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ireport.cnn.com. February 10, 1993.

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• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Surgery, I Can

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Fun, Believe, Want

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• I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is ‘Promoting Insecurity", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Age, Way

  "In quotes: Joan Rivers". www.bbc.com. September 05, 2014.

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• Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

  Dolly Parton

  Fake People, Mountain, Surgery

  Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More Deluxe”, p.90, Penguin

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• Acting is about being real, being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Acting, Honest

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• She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Family, Beauty

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• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Age, Looks, Attempting

  "Karl Lagerfeld Gives His Best Quote About Plastic Surgery Yet" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Graduation, Heart

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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