Rubbish Quotes

• If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

  Richard Burton

  Being The Best, Ifs

  "Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N. Landrum, Morgan James Publishing, (p. 225), November 1, 2007.

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• An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 49), 1973.

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• Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Good Riddance, Motto, Riddance

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.45, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

  Norman Douglas

  Attitude, Believe, Men

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, Logic, Gracious

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

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• The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Sky, Enemy, Pilots

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• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotic, Names, Patriotism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

  Robert South

  Athens, Paradise, Adam

  'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2

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• In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pieces, Should

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, January 6, 1889.

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• I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.

  Tom Felton

  Teenage, Kids, Clothes

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• I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

  Sienna Miller

  Play, People, Bored

  "Sienna Miller: 'Whatever I say, I get myself into trouble'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

  Auberon Waugh

  Law, People, Journalism

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

  Ronald Biggs

  Years, Paper, Has Beens

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• Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

  Howard Carter

  Doorways, Lasts, Cleanliness

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• I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

  Allen Carr

  Hate, Thinking, I Hate

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  The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Emotional, Mind

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.72, Image

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• Make good use of bad rubbish.

  Elisabeth Beresford

  Work, Use

  Elisabeth Beresford (2011). “The Wombles Go round the World”, p.127, A&C Black

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• We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

  John Lennon

  Music, Writing, Theme

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• This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Taken, Complaining, Rambling

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.149, Weiser Books

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• I am a rubbish flirt.

  Dawn French

  Flirting

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• Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Broken, Nihilism, Break

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• During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

  Milla Jovovich

  Appreciate, Gourmet, Meals

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• I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

  Tim Vine

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

  Nigel Farage

  Independence, Way, Alex

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