Trash Quotes

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I'm really white trash.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'