Best Junkyard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.”

Fear Living Dead Graveyard Vehicles Junkyard

Book:Worldwaker

Source: Worldwaker

“Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.”

Ultimate Destination Junkyard

Book:Whack on the Side of the Head

Source: Whack on the Side of the Head

“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?”

“I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.”

Knows Adversaries Civility Scrap Niceness Junkyard

Author:Steven Weber

“The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity rising from the stinking junkyard of American public life. At last, some official body has come to a decision about Clinton's conduct that is untainted by politics, cowardice or cynicism.”

“I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.”

Looks Feelings Records Heard Listening Filled These Days Metals Depressing Pathos Styx Junkyard

Author:Tom Verlaine

“That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.”

Three Neighborhood Metals Truck Scrap Pickups Tractors Pickup Trucks Junkyard Scrap Metal

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.”

Men Looks Behinds Truth Is Red Brown Harsh Leafs Mold Spoiled Rust Barns Rubies Harsh Truth Tiaras Junkyard

Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

Said Soul Helping Dog Emotional Poet Makeup Junkyard

Book:Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel

Source: Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel

“They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.”

People Giving Wells Beautiful Games Christ Students Give Me Labels Executives Occupation Robots Clerks Beautiful People Trainees Junkyard

Book:The electric kool-aid acid test

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.”

Men Mind Soul Sometimes Chance Cities Break Too Much Fate Wall Drink Bed Bones Flesh Hospitals Trapped Dump Graveyard Crawling Vases Madhouses Junkyard

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn”

Looks Persons Important Hard Enough Stories Spirit Sleep Paint Immune Faerie Fluttering Junkyard Winos

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.”

Might Form Process Chance Materials Evolution Higher Yards Junk Sweeping Boeing Origin Of Life Tornadoes Evolution Of Life Junkyard Boeing 747

Author:Fred Hoyle

“I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Writing Looks I Can Character Hands Study Feet Balance Details Access Dialogue Look Up Gestures Compelling Harvest Junkyard

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.”

Wells May Law Environment Failing Tree Waste Environmental Nightmare Owners Chemicals Metals Vehicle Tire Trash Fluid Scrap Stumps Derelict Junkyard Groundwater Scrap Metal

Author:Richard Blumenthal

“If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear.”

Ifs World Way Want Stills Ends Bigs Age Stuff Space Walks Fire One Way Desert Heat Just One Stations Not Afraid Beans Underwear Foils Junkyard Aluminium

Author:Tom Waits

“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

Ifs Enough Whole Happens Universe Found Bits Chance Pieces Ready Standing Blow Passages Yards Standing There Boeing Tornadoes Whirlwind Bits And Pieces Disarray Junkyard Boeing 747

Book:The Intelligent Universe

Source: The Intelligent Universe

“For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.”

Love Age Guy Deals Car Kings Customers Locals Drivers Yards Hook Hanging Around Hook Up Salvage Junkyard

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.”

“History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.”

Broken Pathetic Treaties Junkyard

Author:Richard M. Nixon