Garbage Quotations

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.

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.

I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

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.

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.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news,

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

I'm a human garbage can, but I don't like veggies unless they have Velveeta cheese on top. And forget crunchy broccoli and carrots. I like 'em soggy, soft and wilted. The nutrients have probably gone away, but that's the only way I can eat them.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

I'm wearing a garbage bag. I was put on my own worst-dressed list.

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.

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.

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.

I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

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.

One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.

I have designed a few new tools to help me with my work. They are both in the prototype stage at this point, but the most promising has a rake front attached to a PVC pipe and garbage bag at the back, and after you scoop, you just tilt the tool back so that it slides into the bag.

I don't have to throw stuff into the garbage that is perfectly good. I'm cleaning through my basement and closets and have been able to offer a lot.

I don't know which is best (city-operated or privately-operated garbage collection),

There are people who bring garbage bags full of bread to the lake and just dump it, ... This is part of an overall management plan to essentially reclaim the town from the geese.

So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, 'Did you get a good look?' and he says, 'Not completely, turn around.' Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.

Secure outside items, garbage cans, toys and anything else that could become a damaging object in the air. Anchor them securely or bring them indoors.

On a human level, the garbage man is just as important as the teacher or a rock star or a president, because you have to have them. The world would have been dead a long time ago without garbage men.

She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice goal. Sometimes you get them on garbage goals, but this was kind of a fun one.

I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well.. the garbage.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess th

If all schools were green schools, we would recycle a lot more. If we keep on like we're going, the landfill will fill up in 14 years and we'll have to pay more for garbage and it will be bad.

But extreme measures can be prevented. If people don't make pet food, bird seed or garbage easily available to bears, they won't hang around.

Have you ever read those reports of the toxic garbage they put in tobacco, because there are no federal regulations that say otherwise?

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.

He draws a lot of double-teams, and he sees the ice so well. Basically, all you have to do is find a soft spot in the ice. He does a great job fighting off guys, and I just pick up the garbage in front of the net.

We're pretty pleased with how it turned out. To Garbage fans, it sounds like a Garbage song. And to Bond fans, it's a Bond song.

Joe does a great job drawing double-teams and fighting off guys, and I just pick up the garbage in front. I just always play hard, and if it happens, it happens. ... It's amazing to play with him, and we're making up points against teams ahead of us in the standings.

Jose was just in the right spot at the right time on all three of those goals. I wouldn't call them garbage goals, I think it was more of his hustle that made it happen. He's got great vision of the game and he's just in the right spot all the time.

Some people can say Herb had a lot of garbage points today. I say it was good position. It was Herb outworking their big guys.

Our neighborhood only gets cleaned up when they say Daley is coming. When the mayor's not here there's garbage flying everywhere. Kids running all in the streets doing just illiterate things. The mayor ain't talking about what needed to be talked about out here.

Just because you are a big landowner doesn't give you the right to dump your garbage on the little landowner.

I thought it was garbage what people were saying about George,

I thought it was the garbage that was smelling like that. I didn't know it was a body out there in the car.

I went to the site, ... This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.

I think that it's important to remember throughout the whole process how really lucky we are to be able to do this. I just think about how lucky we are that we don't have to load garbage into trucks or anything like that, you know what I mean? This is the best job anybody could ever have, so I think we all need a little shot of humility and a little break from the action.

Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.

Remember you're a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.

I think this game has just got back on it's feet. I don't think we need that garbage settling in.

It basically shows he's a no-character person. My left knee still hurts. He was talking garbage the whole game. In fact, he kept getting worse. He said, 'For a defensive end, you sure are short.' It just shows he doesn't have any class.

I think it's been pretty good for most of our guys here because they got a chance to play some. They're not playing garbage minutes. We're trying to win ballgames with them.

It didn't hit me right away. I had to have someone else kind of take a garbage can cover, hit me on the head and say, ?Did you realize what just happened?' It was the first time an American company had won that category.

We have the ?Keep Main Street Blooming? project, and we honor downtown businesses, and we have donated two benches and matching garbage cans ... make it a better, happier, more fun place to be.

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

The animals were just tied to here, there, stacked up here, stacked up on garbage there, buried under garbage here. It was pretty bad." ()

I was picking up garbage along ditches, and by chance I just walked alongside an old garage and saw pelvic bones white bones and a skull. At first, I didn't know what to think, then I realized it was probably Bill.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

We get complaints from people that certain properties are not being kept up. We look into it, and once we find the owners we send them a notice asking to pick up their garbage, debris and brush and their alley ways and ask them to place any garbage in its designated area.

We need it, ... All my food went in the garbage because it wasnt good.

We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.

We cleaned up the plant nurseries, pulled out weeds, cleaned up the garbage and fixed the irrigation system.

When it rained, I ran from floor to floor and room to room, placing garbage cans and buckets under the rain that was leaking into the building,