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“My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.”

Needs Matter Energy Quality Empty Exciting Exploration Initials Rubbish Biggest Fear

Author:Catherine Stock

“Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.”

Quality Creativity Produce Research Consequence Quantity Rubbish

Author:Dean Keith Simonton

“The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.”

Psychology Intellectual Enlightenment Died Contemporary Vocabulary Astrology Rubbish Pseudoscience

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”

Writing Has Beens Numbers Graves Ruins Egypt Rubbish

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!”

Ifs Giving Feels I Can Use Fronts Give Me Command Chiefs Staff Rubbish

Author:Georgy Zhukov

“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter”

World Want Important Matter Media Huge Amount Internet Innovation Lifetime Available Wide What You Want Rapids Rubbish Encyclopedia World Wide Web

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”

Knows Wind Mercy Graves Sooner Or Later Rubbish

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.”

People Fans Nervous Scare Get Real Rubbish

Author:Andrew Garfield

“I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"”

Ifs Thinking I Can Would Be Bits Knowing Rubbish

Author:Karl Pilkington

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.”

Food Fine Cooking Authenticity Dry Guts Culinary Smooth Rubbish Coarse

Author:Kingsley Amis

“people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.”

People Deals Numbers Greater Offers Paid Movie Rubbish Cheques

Author:Glenda Jackson

“The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.”

Men World Helping Chance Disappointed Sisterhood Rubbish Spinsters

Author:Nancy Astor

“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.”

People Pieces Stupid Taste Travel Empty Ugly Here And There Tourists Rubbish Stupid Things Pausing Ugly Things

Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.”

Book Reading Literature Fiction Novel Percent Science Fiction Seven Our Time Reviews Ninety Rubbish Worth Reading Good Science

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Light Produce Sorrow Insight Trauma Tranquility Rubbish Stunning

Book:Telegraph Avenue then

Source: Telegraph Avenue then

“I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.”

Book Bits Conversation Cooks Rubbish Dip

Author:Isla Fisher

“I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.”

Persons Reality Next Tvs Amount Factors Programming Load Overwhelmed Rubbish Reality Tv

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.”

Writing Music Music Is Theme Rubbish

Author:John Lennon

“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.”

Quantity Load Exquisite Rubbish Shellfish

Author:Emile Zola

“All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.”

Enough Stuff Player Treats Drinking Clubs Good Enough Rubbish Not Good Enough

Author:Bryan Robson

“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.”

Thinking Wells Reality Watches Written Tvs Pure News Entertainment Nonsense Rubbish Dallas Well Written Melodrama Dross

Author:Larry Hagman

“I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.”

Hard Seems Belief Study Expectations Add Profound Jew Worthy Noble Spots Reports Superstitions Rubbish Goyim

Author:H. L. Mencken

“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”

People Want Years Wells Kids Five Six Deserve Paid Treated Rubbish Lottery Apprenticeship

Author:Daley Thompson

“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Masters Add Slave Noble Cease Exalted Rubbish Yoke

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.”

Thinking Needs Should Fighting Belief Religious Leader Particular Agree Threat Extremes Allies Fundamentalism Moderates Rubbish Religious Belief Muster Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Martin Rees

“With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.”

Bigs Simple Steps Products Impact Fruit Buying Portions Cents Avoiding Rubbish Packaging Big Impact

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.”

Should Littles Past Clean Dust Reverence Dirt Piety Rubbish

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.”

Writing Wells Art Play Chance Boys Morning Goes On Office London Producers These Days Secretary Rubbish My Boys

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.”

Chemistry Compounds Rubbish Puzzling Organic Chemistry

Author:J. Norman Collie

“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.”

Firsts Soul Light Literature Common Creativity Mines Fine Genius Gold Thrown Metals Digging Rubbish Authorship Dullness Precious Metal

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.”

Ifs Giving I Can Rubbish Holding Back Daft

Author:Karl Pilkington

“Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.”

Doe Lasts Mathematics Rubbish Hygiene

Book:The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues

Source: The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues

“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Would Be Action Forget Rooms Knowledge Knowing Learning Constitution Sake Fortunate Merciful Rubbish

Author:Anna Brackett

“Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.”

Persons Would Be Lost Valuable Titles Rubbish

Author:Josh Billings

“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.”

Looks Home Earth Beautiful Planets Climate Climate Change Landscape Covered Immense Elderly Rubbish Lament Filth Beautiful Landscapes

Book:Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home

Source: Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home

“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!”

Ifs Country Justice Claims Injustice Rubbish

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.”

Knows Needs Care Water Realizing Cutting Air Tree Goes On Waste Commitment Concern Environmental Take Care Atmosphere Poison Bus Pollution Alliances Commitment To God Rubbish Air And Water

Author:Oscar Romero

“Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.”

“I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you're rubbish and get down in the dumps. What's the point?”

Trying Bigs Jobs Reading Interesting About Yourself Good Job Rubbish Dump

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.”

Thinking World Needs Long I Can Book Language Can Do Hiding Insightful Rubbish Can Do Something

Author:Robert Coover

“I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.”

Want Art Stars Fantasy Hollywood Ruins Dressings Rubbish Gowns Hollywood Stars

Author:Sarah Brightman

“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.”

May Night Land Sight Anger Wave Careful Be Careful Tides Threshold Rubbish Toss Outgoing

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.”

Writing Song Half Albums Rubbish

Author:Jason Mraz

“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.'”

Should Said Humor Funny Faces Dad Should Have Rubbish Hawks Blokes Slayer

Author:Bill Bailey

“The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"”

Reason Humor Funny Lost Fire Car Train Chaos Burning Giants Boredom Glimpse Bangs Procedures Rubbish Microphones Buffets Gary Carriages Announcements Biscuits Tantalizing

Author:Bill Bailey

“Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.”

Pay Magic Modern Drug Miracle Medicine Organs Bullets Breakthrough Procedures Rubbish Transplants Modern Medicine Organ Transplant

Author:Andrew Saul

“The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John

“It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Doe Hard Earth Pain Lying He Man Pure Gold Lays Treasure Sand Metals Nevertheless Rubbish Pebbles Dross

Book:The Works of John Locke

Source: The Works of John Locke

“It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.”

Way Littles Enough Lying Ambition Employed Rubbish Clearing Labourers

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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