Rubbish Quotes - Page 2

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish

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.

Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

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.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.

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.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

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.

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.

Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.