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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! -- E. M. Forster
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. -- Ambrose Bierce
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. -- Robert South
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet -- Julia Quinn
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. -- Norman Douglas
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
I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!' -- Robert Pattinson
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. -- John Keats
Magnus, I say more gentlyListen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen.Rubbish, he says fiercely.You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul. -- Sophie Kinsella
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. -- Allen Carr
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it. -- Richard Burton
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength. -- Anton Chekhov
There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. -- Ronald Biggs
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. -- Tom Felton
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it. -- Salman Rushdie
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds -- Thomas Merton
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. -- Eric Hoffer
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
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
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
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish. -- William S. Burroughs
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
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed. -- Mooji
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light. -- Herman Melville
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. -- Alice Munro
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid. -- Douglas Hofstadter
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together. -- Kurt Schwitters
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs. -- Myrtle Reed
Networking is rubbish; have friends instead. -- Steve Winwood
Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. -- Pat Cash
London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it. -- Hussein Chalayan
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. -- Paul McCartney
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. -- Vivienne Westwood
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
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
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy! -- George Clooney
No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone. -- Mark Haddon
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish. -- Vivienne Westwood
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. -- Sebastian Coe
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. -- Nick Cave
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive. -- Freddie Highmore
I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important. -- Pele
Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong. -- Sugata Mitra
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker. -- Gemma Arterton
It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career. -- Jo Brand
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. -- Tim Vine
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet. -- Milla Jovovich
Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish. -- Richard Rogers
Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at the instance of any person? Everyone knows that the film industry is highly competitive, and one gets a job on one's talent only and not on any recommendation. -- Katrina Kaif
Rookies talk rubbish. -- Toba Beta
My paintings are rubbish. -- David Bailey
I am a rubbish flirt. -- Dawn French
Good riddance to bad rubbish. -- Rodman Philbrick
Make good use of bad rubbish. -- Elisabeth Beresford
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish. -- Martin Freeman
A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special. -- Justus Kohncke
You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge. -- Karl Pilkington
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly. -- George Eliot
I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself. -- Dylan Moran
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. -- Maisie Williams
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish. -- Maisie Williams
I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish. -- Tom Hollander
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. -- J. Norman Collie
If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish. -- Richard Branson
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. -- Freeman Dyson
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. -- Serge Lang
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. -- Aleister Crowley
I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out. -- Khushwant Singh
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat. -- Sophie McShera
We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time. -- John Lennon
Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of. -- Elton John
I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish. -- David Toop
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish -- Charles Reznikoff
Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself. -- Trinny Woodall
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. -- Louis Dudek
The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever. -- Alice Walker
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. -- Philip Pullman
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I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. -- Richard Burton
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. -- Rumi
Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff. -- Tom Ward
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! -- Eddie Rickenbacker
A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes. -- Agyness Deyn
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. -- Joe Elliott
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish. -- Josh Billings
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. -- Jennifer Stone
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish. -- Carlos Ghosn
What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent. -- Raquel Welch
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish. -- Bryan Robson
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. -- Robert Carlyle
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. -- Jane Austen
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. -- Jason Mraz
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. -- Charles Darwin
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
When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music, -- Akon
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. -- Robertson Davies
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. -- George Eliot
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy. -- Sarah Brightman
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around. -- Brian Molko
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
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. -- Jane Goodall
Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. -- Kingsley Amis
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better. -- Ai Weiwei
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What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. -- Stephen Hawking
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
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
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
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 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
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
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event. -- Douglas William Jerrold
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
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

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