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Quotes About Rubbish

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
~ Lewis Capaldi
Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
~ blake william vii
With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.
~ Helen Keller
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
~ Adrian Edmondson
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
~ Nick Cave
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.
~ Ian Gillan
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
~ Aleister Crowley
I know my Germany. This is a temporary illness, something like measles, which will pass as soon as the economic situation improves. Do you really believe the compatriots of Goethe and Schiller, Kant and Beethoven will fall for this rubbish?
~ Fred Uhlman
from The Auction I left my home with unencumbered will And all the rubbish of confusion sold.
~ Theodore Roethke
The seventy million cubic metres of rubble in Berlin are gradually being made into mountains, which then will be turfed and have trees planted on them. These mountains are known as Monte Klamotten—Rubbish Mountains—and the total operation is known as 'Hitler's Collected Works'.
~ Ian Fleming
Recommendations can be tricky. I'm happy to steer someone towards something ace and away from something rubbish, but my only tool is my opinion.
~ Sarah Millican
Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.
~ Bob Arum
I miss the BBC when I'm away. I'm away so much that it's a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.
~ Geraint Thomas
One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.
~ Iris Murdoch
the heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things.
~ Isabel Allende
London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.
~ Jeff Beck
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
~ Maisie Williams
Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.
~ Neal Shusterman
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
~ Vivienne Westwood
trash. The contents of the bag I tagged look like basic garbage
~ J.D. Robb
My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.
~ Mark Lawrenson
Don't apologize, you were very fair." Dess sipped his tea. "The defense will stipulate that we're rubbish. Genocidal meatbags with mummy issues and embarrassingly poor impulse control.
~ Catherynne M. Valente