Trash Quotes - Page 2

• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Play, Safety

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Strong Opinions”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

  John Henrik Clarke

  Experience, Instruments, Liberation

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• This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Distance, Quality

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Kissing, Gun, Cameras

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• When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Able, Palaces

  Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar, March 06, 1780.

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• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Light, Electric Motors

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Eclairs, Gymnast, Hell

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• Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

  Richard Roeper

  Equilibrium

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• You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

  Charles de Lint

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

  Henny Youngman

  Taken, Men, Car

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• It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

  Neal Shusterman

  Littering, Humans, Human Beings

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• Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

  Russell Westbrook

  Moving, House, Needs

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• Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Talking, Why Not

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• Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

  Scott Weiland

  Pigs, White, People

  Song: Divider, Album: 12 Bar Blues

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• In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Games, Trash Talk

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• I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

  Joan Van Ark

  Swear To God, Play, Want

  "The Joan Van Ark Exclusive Interview". Interview with Knots Landing Fan, www.knotslanding.net. June 21, 2018.

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

  Phil Robertson

  Eye, Godly, White

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Years, People

  "Steve Spurrier quit after Gamecocks started 'going south'", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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• Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Trash Talk, Stadiums

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• You can't spell Citrus without UT

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Great Football, Trash Talk

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• Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Men, Jewels

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

  Dan Miller

  Successful, Errors, Differences

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Leotards, Performances, Particular

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