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Quotes About Discard

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
~ Judd Hirsch
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
~ Norman MacCaig
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
~ Brian Greene
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
~ Samuel Johnson
By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
~ Andy Rooney
Uma frigideira de saltear como deve de ser, por exemplo, deve ser capaz de causar sérios estragos cerebrais se baterem com ela na cabeça de alguém. Se têm sérias dúvidas sobre qual é que se vai amachucar – a cabeça da vítima ou a sua frigideira – então atirem a frigideira para o lixo.
~ Anthony Bourdain
That dried sawdust they sell in the cute little cans at the supermarket? You can throw that, along with the spice rack, right in the garbage.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail. That was, after all, what happened when history was written; many, if not most, of the true facts discarded.
~ Anthony Powell
The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.
~ Anthony Robbins
For the human body was a bizarre piece of improvisation, full of organs that had been diverted from one function to another, not always very successfully—and even containing discarded items, like the appendix, that were now worse than useless.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.
~ John Fogerty
For the timid or uninitiated, leaf-wrapped foods offer an ideal and gentle introduction to fire cooking. Liberated from the need to worry about whether the fish is sticking to the grill or burning, pay attention instead to the rate of browning on the surface of the leaf, which you'll get to discard whether it chars or remains pale.
~ Samin Nosrat
Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.
~ Scott Bradfield
All beliefs are worth examining. The key is to notice your beliefs, and test them – not necessarily discard them.
~ Spencer Johnson
Lucky hard-ons are bio-degradable, I thought, because I was throwing a lot them away.
~ Stephen Clarke
Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
~ Stephen King
The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.
~ J.R. Rim
Our olfactory bulbs have gathered endless sense patterns of foods high in sugar, fat and salt. These flavour memories have become part of the fabric of our sense of self and are not easily discarded, because the system, as we have seen, is designed 'not to forget'.
~ Bee Wilson
You put garbage in the rubbish bin; you keep junk in the attic or garage.
~ Matt Ridley
Actual fact: you could make an entire second world out of what people throw away. The landfill is where I figured out one of my main philosophies, that everybody alive is basically in the process of trading out their old stuff for different stuff, day in day out.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
~ Stephen King
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
~ Rumi
were nothing but junk; nobody would want them.
~ Joshua Davis