Top 466 Rubbish Quotes & Sayings

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

I am a rubbish flirt.

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

Oh god, I'm a rubbish cook.

My paintings are rubbish.

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

I'd be a rubbish policewoman in real life.

Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.

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

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

I'm a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition supposedly emphasizing 'the finite existence of art'... The cleaner evidently had no time to question the relationship of his or her being to the rubbish bag, and reached the right conclusion.

I'm tempted by rubbish food after wins.

When you have rubbish stuff coming your way, you have to let go.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I was rubbish at school.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It's in the British nature to go 'Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.'

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

I must be rubbish as I can only play one sport.

It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.

For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." But it's rubbish. Absolute rubbish. A huge amount of your work is done when you're not at your desk. Knotty problems that you need your unconscious to solve. So it can be helpful to walk away and focus on other things and it can be helpful to be a bit harassed in your daily life, to be hungry for time to write.

For me, the whole fame and industry facade is a load of rubbish.

I'm rubbish at Twitter.

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

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

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

It's rubbish for somebody to say that food is not politics.

We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.

A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.

I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

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

I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with no self-esteem and no idea what I wanted to do.

If I go and try to watch a movie by myself I'll be completely transfixed the whole time, concentrating one hundred percent. But if I'm with another person on a date or something, within two minutes I'll be like 'This is rubbish, this is rubbish. We should leave and do something else.' I don't really know why.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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

I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.

What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!

Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.

I'm rubbish - I'm really not good at my beauty regimes.

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

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

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

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

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.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

I was really rubbish at school.

It's rubbish to say you can't be proper friends with the opposite sex.