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Quotes About Rubbish

You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.
~ Karl Pilkington
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
~ Ai Weiwei
Bad child, wicked child, push you in the bin, Out with the rubbish on your chin, chin, chin, Up pops and ishkin, then it pulls you in, Makes you cry and sucks you dry and throws away your skin.
~ Emily Rodda
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
~ Larry Hagman
I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
~ Tom Hollander
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
I understand why people play [soccer]. ... I even learned how to talk the game. It was the opposite of trash talking—tidy talking. I suppose you'd have to call it. If you did something good, it was brilliant; something less than brilliant was useless; if all of you were useless together, you were rubbish; and if a person did something brilliant that nonetheless became useless, everyone cried, 'Oh, unlucky!
~ Adam Gopnik
he was a rubbish Sensitive, and I cut his head off. If he'd been any good at looking into the future he'd have ducked.
~ Derek Landy
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
~ Peter Paul Rubens
Your great causes, your wars, your struggle to save the world … Your end which justifies the means … Prick up your ears, Philippa. Can you hear those voices, that yowling? Those are cats fighting for a great cause. For indivisible mastery over a heap of rubbish. It's no joking matter—blood is being spilled and clumps of fur are flying. It's war. But I care incredibly little about either of these wars, the cats' or yours.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Co za syf - powiedzia? Bandurko.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
~ Morley Safer
For me, the whole fame and industry facade is a load of rubbish.
~ Tulisa
stuff and nonsense
~ Lewis Carroll
I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay. It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it just for you.' I replied simply, 'But no one came to take the measurements.
~ Alec Guinness
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
~ Aleister Crowley
The dreamers of ideals [?] – socialists, altruists, and humanitarians of whatever ilk – make me physically sick to my stomach. They're idealists with no ideal, thinkers with no thought. They're enchanted by life's surface because their destiny is to love rubbish, which floats on the water and they think it's beautiful, because scattered shells float on the water too.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
~ Pat Cash
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
~ Charles Darwin
Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.
~ E.M. Forster
flower blossoming in the car park or the sparrowhawk losing its feathers or any of the other rubbish she saw fit to print.
~ Anthony Horowitz