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 that it is the first.
Ambrose Bierce
42 quotes about rubbish follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
I was once timed at 99.97mph, but that's rubbish, I was miles faster than that [attributed].
Jeff Thomson
Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.
Margot Asquith
I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.
Paul Cooper
A lot of theater concepts are laughable; they're rubbish. What counts is getting human behavior right, all the tiny, negligible details of speech and gesture.
Jonathon Miller
We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.
Kate Allen
We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I hoped and prayed that we would be otherwise we would have been kidding ourselves.
Chris Coleman
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
Sarah Brightman
It's a load of rubbish.
Tony Juniper
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
Robert H. Jackson
It's no good playing well one week and rubbish the next. We need the consistency or you will get fans saying that they should have been here the week before and not coming back.
John Hollins
It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it was good to be a little overweight rather than normal weight, ... And it was pure rubbish.
Walter Willett
I tell you there's some right rubbish on there. Some of those pictures aren't even me. They're people who they think are me but are actually American glamour models: horrendous!
Kirsty Gallacher
My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.
Adrian Plass
It is absolute rubbish.
Barbara Charone
Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
Myrtle Reed
When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish.
Julio Iglesias
I thought, if I do a movie, I may be rubbish at it. I know I'm good at music, though. And that's what pays my bills.
Sharleen Spiteri
Based on everything I've read about it, it seems to be complete rubbish. He's not even a linguist.
Jesse Sheidlower
This was the Prime Minister's prerogative. It's rubbish to say there's been a tussle.
Arjun Singh
I'll spare you the actors' pretentious rubbish, but a face reflects experience, so if you concentrate on a character something happens to you physically. Many actors look at the costume before the part, and that seems crazy to me. It's much more fun to be ugly. Not that I think I'm ugly, but I've never considered myself good-looking.
Robert Carlyle
I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish.
Christian Koch
I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers.
George Michael
This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.
Sizwe Kupelo
An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, "Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris."
Cecil Beaton
I cut things off because I no longer want to be like a wall, or a rubbish bin where you dump anything you want.
Gerard Depardieu
It comes up time and time again when you talk to people. They want a graffiti and rubbish-free environment in which they can feel safe. We have got to drive this forward.
Coun Tilsley
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
Milla Jovovich
I'd cut an arm off to win that gold medal. The pole vault would be difficult but that's a rubbish event for me anyway!
Dean Macey
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies
ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
Ambrose Bierce
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert Southey
It's all a load of rubbish.
Peter Doherty
This bullying rubbish is absolute garbage, everyone who knows me and works with me said take no notice of it.
Bill Sweetenham
On weekends like Homecoming, we'll have continuous calls day and night. The residents in those neighborhoods can't sleep, and their children can't sleep. They end up with beer cans on their lawns and rubbish thrown all over the area the next day. You have to feel bad for them.
Lieutenant Michael Bois
The independent group of experts are not pushovers in this process. No-one should rubbish their view in advance. Perhaps, like me, they will see that the Southern is clearly the best site. Perhaps they won't.
Gordon Jackson
Any player who tells you this is just another final or just another game we've got to get through, that's just rubbish, ... It's a whole lot more than that.
Scott Cummings
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.