Quotes on Trash

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.