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Quotes About Waste

Love with no feelings is a waste.
~ Jon Jones
Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
The waitress, seeing how much I had left, asked me if I wanted a doggie bag. 'No thank you,' I said through a thin smile, 'I don't believe I could find a dog that would eat it.
~ Bill Bryson
That is the most extraordinary fact about Britain. It wants to be a garden. Flowers bloom in the unlikeliest places - on railway sidings and waste grounds where there is nothing beneath them but rubble and grit.
~ Bill Bryson
22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.
~ Bill Bryson
Isn't it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?
~ Bill Bryson
You discard about a hundred billion red blood cells every day. They are a big component of what makes your stools brown.
~ Bill Bryson
the main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In
~ Bill Bryson
Before this dumping was halted in the 1990s, the United States had dumped many hundreds of thousands of drums into about fifty ocean sites—almost fifty thousand of them in the Fallarones alone.
~ Bill Bryson
I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to add crisp packets, empty cigarette boxes and carrier-bags to the other wise bland and neglected landscape.
~ Bill Bryson
Adults in the West produce about 200 grams of feces a day—a little under half a pound, about 180 pounds a year, 14,000 pounds in a lifetime.
~ Bill Bryson
Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe
~ Bill Clinton
New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.
~ Bill Maher
New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.
~ Bill Maher
We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue-- or they win ! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!
~ Bill Maher
I hear other people saying, 'I can't wait for my vacation.' To me, it's a lost day out of your life when you feel that way. It's such a waste to be unhappy when you can wake up in the morning anticipating the day. Your work should be something you enjoy.
~ Bo Burlingham
What did I do now?' It was getting to the point where she didn't know any longer, but she was certain it couldn't be proper. 'Don't waste sugar,' she improvised. 'I'm not wasting it; I'm drinking it,' May countered.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Can nothingness be so prodigal?
~ Sylvia Plath
He always arranged our weekends so we'd never regret wasting our time in any way.
~ Sylvia Plath
Each day demands we create our whole world over, disguising the constant horror in a coat of many-colored fictions; we mask out past in the green of Eden, pretend future's shining fruit can sprout from the navel of this present waste.
~ Sylvia Plath
Oed' und leer das Meer.
~ T.S. Eliot
Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after
~ T.S. Eliot
Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?
~ Julia Ward Howe
because one of the privileges of Paris, one of its rarest graces, bestowed only on those who know how to WASTE TIME there, is suddenly to show itself in unusual guises...
~ Julian Green