“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's rubbish to say you can't be proper friends with the opposite sex. — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes. — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
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… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. Those two strangers… — Jonathan Dunne Copy Share Image
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen.… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image