Top 100 Quotes About Garbage
#1. "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.
Jimmy Carter
#2. When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
Jim McKelvey
#3. I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.
Walter Dean Myers
#4. Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we had clowns, we had them all. But we had one thing that was real, and that was me
Shawn Michaels
#5. This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Walt Whitman
#6. When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?
Nash Summers
#7. He stops to look at a garbage can. He realizes the garbage can will never be his friend and cannot help him. So he wanders away.
Noah Cicero
#8. She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
Tamora Pierce
#9. My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
Carol Bartz
#10. The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.
Nhat Hanh
#12. Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#14. is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.
Ben Shapiro
#15. I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.
Samuel Beckett
#16. ...for people like me, People Who Drink Too Much Pinot Noir and Dance Dance Dance. Always the Dancing. I drink Pinot Noir. I Dance. I am Garbage.
Pablo Fenjves
#17. The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
Nick Tosches
#18. I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.
Kevin Nealon
#19. It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.
Stephen Graham Jones
#20. I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
Christy Romano
#21. The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
John Lennon
#22. My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
Dan Marino
#23. Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.
Rick Riordan
#24. A well paid garbage man smells of success.
Kilburn Hall
#25. There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
Phil McGraw
#26. Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
John Mulaney
#27. Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
Betsey Johnson
#28. Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
Edward Abbey
#29. The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.
George Carlin
#30. There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
Salman Rushdie
#31. Because anyone who treats their body like it's garbage the way he does isn't exactly in the best place to love someone else.
Susane Colasanti
#32. Our practice is to water the flower in our loved one, and not bring them more garbage.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#33. Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.
Grant Cardone
#34. You make Gifford Industries sound like some sort of two-bit Mafia-owned New Jersey garbage-hauling company." I thought of a few rejoinders - I'm just wired that way - but I held my tongue.
Joseph Finder
#35. Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.
But then, do we know what references we still hold on?
Sapan Saxena
#36. In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?
Hal Higdon
#37. Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.
Rajneesh
#38. If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.
Emo Philips
#41. Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?
Neil T. Anderson
#42. Samuel thought how his father married to his mother was like a spoon married to a garbage disposal.
Nathan Hill
#43. There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
Bob Woodward
#44. Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.
Kevin Shields
#45. The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
Taylor Lautner
#46. The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.
Bernard Hopkins
#47. Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.
Greg Gutfeld
#48. Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.
Kevin Eubanks
#50. You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?
Jack LaLanne
#51. No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage.
Jenny Lawson
#52. I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.
Shahrukh Khan
#53. When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life. Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?
Bill Austin
#54. From Doc Dom, the thriller that I'm currently working on. Hernando Suarez to one of his henchmen who had just betrayed him.
"Where there is garbage, there's a rat.
Christopher Bowron
#55. There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
Lloyd Bridges
#56. Beautiful things are durable things. Beautiful things you just do not deposit at a garbage dump.
Jan Kriekels
#57. From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.
Jose Saramago
#58. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.
Gisele Bundchen
#59. One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
Robert Moog
#61. Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbage.' It's not a clear-toned announcer's voice. It's more like the voice of the guy next door.
Casey Kasem
#62. Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.
Nicholas Sparks
#63. The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
Karen Joy Fowler
#64. If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.
Lee Marvin
#65. He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.
Plato
#66. The user might have grounds for complaint if the program fails to recognise that he has given a stupid value, in fact a number of cases are currently being fought in the United States courts where a program has failed to recognise invalid data, produced garbage and caused a lot of damage.
Rob Miles
#67. An overburdened liver sounds different from a healthy one. An overburdened liver groans. It groans and begs. It begs for a day off. A day to deal with the worst of the garbage.
Herman Koch
#68. Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.
Gil Brewer
#69. If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#71. But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.
Wes Anderson
#72. Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
Joe Henderson
#73. Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!
Wayne W. Dyer
#74. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.
Bobby Fischer
#75. My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.
Sophia Amoruso
#76. Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.
Paula Creamer
#77. I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
John Chamberlain
#78. On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
Caity Lotz
#79. Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.
Joseph Heller
#81. I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
Abigail Breslin
#82. Believe in what makes you Healthy, because everything else is just garbage.
Gary Hopkins
#83. Books are like people: there are too many and most are garbage but we keep producing them because maybe a really amazing one will turn up though it's doubtful as fuck.
Brian Alan Ellis
#84. Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
Thom Yorke
#85. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Wes Fesler
#86. I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.
George Carlin
#87. Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
John C. Maxwell
#88. Roses are red. Violets are blue. Garbage gets dumped, and now so have you. - Brian (to Amy)
Elizabeth Eulberg
#90. I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
Marvin Hamlisch
#91. These words are my mother's,
my father's, my brother's, my lender's, my garbage
man's - the poem runs
like oil on fire
beneath this earth where we know each other.
Witness the black smoke everywhere.
B.J. Ward
#92. 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Patton Oswalt
#93. Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.
David Sedaris
#94. The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.
Peter Kreeft
#95. I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.
Lou Reed
#96. The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.
Christopher Hitchens
#97. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I
A. J. Jacobs
#98. The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born
John Berger
#99. One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn't a heap of decayed garbage or that of a spoiled fish. Truth be told, he smelled like rotten cheese.
H.B. Bolton
#100. It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.
Rob Corddry
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