Rubbish Quotes · Page 3

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

— Zubin Mehta

I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.

— Sophie McShera

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

— Richard Burton

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

— Francesca Hayward

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

— Kelly Brook

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

— Chris Hoy

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

— Karl Pilkington

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

— Richard Branson

I grew up in a little seaside town that I thought was absolutely rubbish and I couldn't wait to leave.

— Rosie Jones

“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I…

— Estelle

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or…

— Annie Lennox

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

— Philip Pullman

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in…

— Craig Brown

“I am in Waterstones looking at all the chick lit rubbish on the shelves. In a fit of pique, I turn them…

— Maddie Grigg

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I…

— Emile Zola

Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want…

— Bob Arum

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,…

— Hanif Kureishi

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes…

— Sugata Mitra

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if…

— Tony Abbott

I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And…

— Sophia Myles

You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in…

— Quentin Crisp

It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the…

— Kelly Macdonald

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has…

— Richard Rogers

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any…

— Mark Hopkins

“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we…

— Italo Calvino

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown…

— Augustus Pitt Rivers

“I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that…

— Doris Lessing

Men don't know anything! Men don't know when their lives became so entirely awful, when everyone else turned into such a tosser!…

— Dylan Moran

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and…

— Joseph Addison

We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone…

— Ingrid Betancourt

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you…

— Myrtle Reed

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

— Glenn Murray

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

— Maisie Williams

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

— Martin Freeman

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

— Charles Reznikoff

“Rubbish, we don't want to be happy, we want to be famous!" (Lunkwill)”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Rosie Jones

Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.

— Trinny Woodall

I'd be a rubbish policewoman in real life.

— Claudia Jessie