Top 214 Disposable Quotes & Sayings

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

Real love shouldn't be disposable.

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

Ockham's disposable razors

Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

I'm not interested in disposable music.

There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.

If everything is disposable or recyclable, how does that make us feel about ourselves and each other?

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as largely disposable.

Art is not disposable.

I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend on are disposable as well. What gives me hope is the kind of bridgework I'm seeing between social movements on the one hand, and young writers and artists on the other, all intent on opposing such pitiless, short-term thinking.

Clothing isn't disposable.

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Tutoring follows the lucrative philosophy of advertising: if you can manufacture a need, people with disposable resources will find ways to fill it.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

When the 1929 crash wiped out disposable income, there were not enough consumers to fuel a recovery.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.

I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.