Quotes by Rubbish Make good use of bad rubbish. Elisabeth Beresford rubbish use work What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities. Emile Zola shellfish exquisite rubbish Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of. Elton John rubbish forever thinking We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. Eugene O'Neill rubbish drink forget I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. Flannery O'Connor rubbish stories writing The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. Freeman Dyson rubbish media trying Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. George Eliot rubbish daylight past If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use! Georgy Zhukov rubbish use giving Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods. Harold Speed advent rubbish perfection Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely. Henry Hazlitt rubbish champion firsts Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. Howard Carter rubbish lasts doorways Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous. Igor Levit rubbish musical people I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt. Isla Fisher dip rubbish book Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. J. Norman Collie compounds rubbish chemistry You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all. J. M. Coetzee rubbish holes men The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. Jane Austen rubbish littles firsts Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. Jennifer Stone rubbish sorrow light I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it. Joanne Froggatt rubbish next reality There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish. Jo Brand rubbish lines genius I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. Jo Brand rubbish work-ethic looks «12345»