Top 98 Trash Can Quotes
#1. The In-Between somehow makes you feel grimy, like all those sights and sounds and sensations and smells have stuck to you, like you've been rolling around in a preschool art class's trash can.
Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves
#2. My degree was garbage stuffed inside a trash can of student loans.
Jacob Tomsky
#3. Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?
Cassandra Clare
#4. Trash can!
Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I'd eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn't actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.
Karen Chance
#5. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?
Liz Fenton
#6. Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
Stanley Crouch
#7. I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, "Yeah, it's just me and my trash can here," as I patted its lid and started pushing it up the driveway.
Amanda Hamm
#8. Enjoy the ride because sometimes that's all you have. Sometimes, on the other side there's nothing but a trash can a whole bunch of people there to watch you throw up in it.
C.M. Stunich
#9. They are in the middle of the sidewalk, face to face, between a tobacco shop and a trash can. Everything they've never said flows into the narrow space between them.
Alexis M. Smith
#10. I wrapped up the remaining half burrito and tossed it into the trash can. Molly watched this act of wastefulness with an expression like she had just seen her entire family die in a fire.
David Wong
#11. King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
Lloyd Alexander
#12. We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.
Leslie Jamison
#13. The South did not bustle and plow and struggle against the snow; it slept beneath it, the silence broken only by the chatter of hungry birds and the exuberant shouts of children using trash can lids as makeshift sleds.
Lauren Gilley
#14. A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.
John Sexton
#15. I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can
John Sexton
#16. I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.
Vince Staples
#17. She took out the bottle of Lariam and without so much as a thoughtful glance dropped it in the trash can beside her. She felt that there was something deeply flawed in her imagination that she hadn't even considered the fact that the pills could just be thrown away.
Ann Patchett
#18. Loneliness had been the trash can fire he huddled around for most of his life.
Michael Connelly
#19. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.
Mindy Kaling
#20. Hemingway once said "all first drafts are shit". At this point we're just writing for the trash can so don't be too judgmental, just get it out there and onto the screen.
Dan Howe
#21. You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.
Rachel Nichols
#23. I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.
Slavoj Zizek
#24. When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
P. J. O'Rourke
#25. At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.
Hilda Scott
#26. Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers."
"You were looking through my trash?
Rainbow Rowell
#27. He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.
Eric Spitznagel
#28. Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake)
Katherine Applegate
#29. The story I had written wasn't the creased, stit-smeared paper now sitting in the bottom of the trash can on the street. That page was just a pipeline through which I could transmit my feelings from my minds to his.
Etgar Keret
#30. A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#31. We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.
Anna Banks
#32. It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
Eric Close
#33. A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
Chino Moreno
#34. I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.
Arj Barker
#35. My trash can got stolen five times. Finally the owner just let me have it.
Jarod Kintz
#36. Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.
Julie Anne Peters
#37. You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.
Felipe Esparza
#38. The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.
Jimmy Fallon
#39. I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.
Greg Gutfeld
#40. Until you've seen this trash can dream come true.
You stand at the edge while people run you through.
And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.
I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.
Bernie Taupin
#41. Prosperity is always built on slave labor. Ask any Ameri-can't. Or Bulgari-can. Yes, we can, eat from a trash can...
Will Advise
#42. Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?"
She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#43. On impulse, I go round the small clearing, picking up all the trash, working with a burst of energy. There isn't a rubbish bin, but I gather it together and put it next to a large rock. My life might be a mess, but I can clear a patch of land, at least.
Sophie Kinsella
#44. Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Thomas Dekker
#45. I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.
Angela Kinsey
#46. It's your chili dog. Clean it up."
"It's your turn to clean."
"The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.
Rachel Caine
#47. My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
Chuck Palahniuk
#48. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#49. I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?
Eugene Mirman
#50. Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on.
She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?"
"Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know.
Nalini Singh
#51. ... sometimes when I close my eyes as I'm being taken, I can pretend that I'm someone special to these men. In my head I can be someone, someone worthy of love, not that white trash kid who left home on foot five years prior.
Candi Kay
#52. Even if I win, what will my future hold? Can I put "saved world" on a college application? If I fulfil my destiny next week, where do I go from there? A Where Are They Now pity piece in some Greek god trash rag?
Tellulah Darling
#53. When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap.
Gayle Forman
#54. I guess high school really is ancient history, she concludes.
Ancient history? Have you really relegated us to the trash heap of the Dumb High-School Romance? And if that's the case, why the hell can't I do the same?
Gayle Forman
#55. When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti
#56. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#57. You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
Charles De Lint
#58. Daughters aren't trash you can toss away, Dad. I had to deal with the mess you left.
Katherine McIntyre
#59. The heart is like an ocean, it can create, feed, hold and purify all the beauties and trash of the world, and in the end, love them all.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Oh shut up - you know damn good and well there can be a hundred people in the room, 99 of them rushing up to say they love your dress, but until that one, the one you wore it for, says something, you might as well be wearing a trash bag.
S.E. Hall
#61. Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
Saul Bellow
#62. Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.
Boy George
#63. Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.
Ted Danson
#64. When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
Jim Davis
#65. All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...
Will Advise
#66. In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
John Berger
#67. I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
Lil' Wayne
#68. Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
Camille Paglia
#69. Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Maria Edgeworth
#70. I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.
Jon Beason
#71. Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.
Derrek Lee
#72. Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't do great things. It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot.
Unknown
#73. I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.
Jose Aldo
#74. For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.
William Shakespeare
#75. The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#77. All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food.
Norian F. Love
#78. If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#79. Tristan would egg me on to trash-talk the little blondie who had "stolen" my boyfriend. Of course I know now that no one can "steal" boyfriends against their will, not even Angelina Jolie itself. But I was filled with a poisonous, pointless teenage jealousy,
James T. Fey
#80. Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#81. I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
Louis C.K.
#82. Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.
Chuck Palahniuk
#83. Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash.
Jon Stewart
#84. How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day [ ... ] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.
Joycelyn Elders
#85. That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.
Anthony Lane
#86. To be in continual ecstasies over nature shows poverty of imagination. In comparison with what my imagination can give me, all these streams and rocks are trash, and nothing else.
Anton Chekhov
#87. A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.
Frederick Lenz
#88. I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
Toni Morrison
#89. A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.
Dan Fagin
#90. YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Salman Rushdie
#91. Most people read drivel. That is their prerogative. The case can be made that it is better to read drivel than to read nothing, on the theory that people will eventually tire of garbage and move on to something more meaty, like trash.
Joe Queenan
#92. AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?
Hal Duncan
#93. The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain't never gonna run out of is white trash.
Don Winslow
#94. If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault."
"[ ... ] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.
Natsuki Takaya
#95. The trash bags are gone, the bar wiped clean. The lights have been hung; they line the stage and loop around the Snakehead, making the old axe glow. Stalled in the doorway, Lorca experiences a stomachache he can only call Christmas.
Marie-Helene Bertino
#96. Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.
Phyllis Diller
#97. I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
Ziyi Zhang
#98. We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
Jaime Lerner
