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

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! — Eddie Rickenbacker

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. — Maisie Williams

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish. — Tom Hollander

Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true. — R.A. Mathis

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

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law — Auberon Waugh

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. — Mark Twain

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. — Peter Capaldi

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. — Rumi

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength. — Anton Chekhov

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish. — Sienna Miller

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead. — Steve Winwood

God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us. — Allison Pearson

When you own a lot of rubbish, it's tough to simplify your life. — Leon Logothetis

The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish — Jonathan Safran Foer

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. — Robertson Davies

I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat. — Sophie McShera

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. — Annie Lennox

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly. — George Eliot

We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish? — Walter James

I am a rubbish flirt. — Dawn French

Good riddance to bad rubbish. — Rodman Philbrick

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Stephen Hawking

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. — Philip Pullman

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular. — Alan Moore

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes. — Agyness Deyn

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, — Akon

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. — Joe Elliott

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

Rubbish, we don't want to be happy, we want to be famous! (Lunkwill) — Douglas Adams

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Outside The Whale (Granta, 1984) — Salman Rushdie

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish. — Raymond Tallis

Why do you do what you do? Why do I do what I do? We will probably neither ever know, and so what we do on a daily basis is complete rubbish. — Jim Kroswell

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish. — Nigel Farage

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. — Mike Leigh

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. — Joseph Addison

Being a grown-up was rubbish — Lindsey Kelk

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

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it. — Estelle

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent. — Raquel Welch

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense. — Moliere

I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.' — Bill Bailey

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why. — Isabelle Adjani

If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish. — Craig Brown

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish. — Carlos Ghosn

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. — Serge Lang

You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge. — Karl Pilkington

Make good use of bad rubbish. — Elisabeth Beresford

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. — Martin Freeman

From The Auction
I left my home with unencumbered will
And all the rubbish of confusion sold. — Theodore Roethke

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. — Eric Hoffer

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for. — Scott Westerfeld

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around. — Brian Molko

So far magic school was rubbish. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish. — Richard C. Armitage

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — Joseph Stalin

Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking. — E. M. Forster

Cheese makes a rubbish eraser. — Greg Gormley

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

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. — Jamaica Kincaid

The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart. — Gloria Furman

Why is everything I own rubbish?' said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidgeon's beak. — J.K. Rowling

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish. — Pete Waterman

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. — J. Norman Collie

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

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

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons. — Norman Tebbit

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. — Zubin Mehta

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it. — Richard Burton

Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain. — Tayeb Salih

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds — Thomas Merton

I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it. — Karl Pilkington

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said.
"Rubbish and you know it."
-Anthony to Violet — Julia Quinn

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish. — Manfred Von Richthofen

Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff. — Tom Ward

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish. — Robert H. Jackson

And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it. — Neal Shusterman

ROSE: The rumor is that he's Voldemort's son, Albus. A horrible, uncomfortable silence. It's probably rubbish. I mean . . . look, you've got a nose. — Jack Thorne

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. — Jonathan Dimbleby

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. — Norman Douglas

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. — Ronald Biggs

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

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it. — Hussein Chalayan

Funny how days are like that. Some days start off rubbish and get worse as they go on, others start well and get better. — Chris Higgins

It's like telling a blind person, "Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution! — Liane Moriarty

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 — Julio Iglesias

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good — Dmitry Pisarev

I've had Botox and all that - why not? There's no cream that gets rid of wrinkles; that's a load of rubbish in my eyes. But Botox does. — Katie Price

The crushed
teapot
in
the rubbish
of the
bulldozed
house
will sing
in your
ears
forever. — Alice Walker

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand. — E. M. Forster