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Quotes About Disposable

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
~ Eriq La Salle
We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.
~ Sondra Radvanovsky
We typically sell a catheter lab to a hospital, and it sits there for the next 10 years, and we don't visit the cardiologist on a daily basis. Volcano have a disposable business. They are in the cath lab on a daily basis.
~ Frans van Houten
I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.
~ Derek Blasberg
Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?
~ Ray Bradbury
Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on jette, on en prend un autre, on se mouche, on froisse, on jette. Tout le monde se sert des basques du voisin.
~ Ray Bradbury
Bueno, al fin y al cabo, esta es la era del tejido desechable. Tratamos a la gente como si fueran pañuelos de papel. Los estrujamos después de utilizarlos, los tiramos, cogemos otro, nos sonamos, lo estrujamos, lo tiramos. Todo el mundo usa la ropa de todo el mundo.
~ Ray Bradbury
He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
~ Warren Farrell
Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
~ Dave Barry
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
~ Christa B. Allen
When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of pictures with and I just remember something always went wrong.
~ Alex Hirsch
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
~ Warren Farrell
My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.
~ April Winchell
Some candles are $40, and you burn them for two days and they're done.
~ Carole Radziwill
For real wealth is the developed productive power of all individuals. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time.
~ Karl Marx
It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.
~ Gwen Stefani
the wealth of a society is going to be measured by how much disposable free time we all have to do what the hell we like without any constraints because our basic needs are met.
~ David Harvey
you don't want to throw away your Starbucks cup, refills are only 50 cents.
~ James Wilson
Dixie cup" was agency jargon for someone disposable, someone who could be arrested or killed without consequence.
~ Alex Berenson
We've become a plastic society.
~ Bill Janklow
One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
We make things so efficiently that they're all disposable; none of them endure, none can belong to us for long before they end up on the scrap heap.
~ Richard Polt
We live in a disposable world. There's no point in investing yourself too heavily. Love doesn't fix anything...it destroys more than it fixes. and when the dust has settled, it's just an afterthought. Lives still get ruined, people still leave, and life goes on and on and on. the first forty-eight hours are the worst. the ego's taken a bit of a kicking. what you need is a constant supply of alcohol. today was a day for taking tranquilizers washed down by vodka.
~ Kathleen Tessaro