Quotes About Waste

The good news was that the streets were litter-free, maybe because no one had anything to throw away.

Sirve el Hummer para la conquista, o para el consumo? La respuesta es que para ambas cosas. De hecho, con su bajo kilometraje por litro (un promedio de cuatro kilómetros por litro) y su gran altura y anchura, ejemplifica el despilfarro estadounidense en el uso del petróleo.

The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit with out speaking. This is the great paradox.

I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted. I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

You see, I explained to Joshua, what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. No kidding? said Josh. Why do I waste my time with you?

Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which his is invited and subjected).

el individuo pasa de un consumo a otro en una especie de bulimia sin objetivo (el nuevo teléfono móvil nos ofrece poquísimas prestaciones nuevas respecto al viejo, pero el viejo tiene que ir al desguace para participar en esta orgía del deseo).

Her grief was the same grief that breathed on this deck, a grief that had always known the way from the military hospitals and graves of the front back to the huts of peasants, huts without numbers standing on patches of waste ground without a name.

È stupefacente come quelle bestie riutilizzassero ogni cosa - cuoio, carta, stoffa, tutto ciò che era servito agli esseri umani serviva, tornava utile anche alle bestie. Solo la cosa più preziosa al mondo - la vita - veniva calpestata.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

chilangos tend to throw their used toilet paper into wastebaskets instead of flushing them down the drain to keep from clogging up the pipes, and this shit-smeared paper winds up in the city dumps and eventually it too goes airborne.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

They use a fossil fuel in a most inefficient manner, even though I am certain that, even with their primitive technology, they know better. I think they may even hide efficiency inventions, as nobody could be that stupid.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

The project is so Dagou, talking into the reeds: indiscreet, self-absorbed, self-destructive, and a waste of personal resources. Not to mention under the table; Ming is sure the equipment is contraband.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.