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


Richard Burton

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AMBROSE BIERCE
Make good use of bad rubbish
ELIZABETH BERESFORD
It is pathetic. It is rubbish and we shall dismiss it the best we can.
ALEX FERGUSON
It is absolute rubbish,
BARBARA CHARONE
They are rubbish wickets really.
SCOTT STYRIS
Rubbish is immortal, it pervades the air, swells up in water, dissolves, rots, disintegrates, change...
IVAN KLíMA
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it."<...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the hu...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK
Operation Drive Out the Rubbish.
ROBERT MUGABE
Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
This statement can be described only as utter rubbish.
SIZWE KUPELO
We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I...
CHRIS COLEMAN
I am a rubbish flirt.
DAWN FRENCH
It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.
ALAN SHEARER
The interviewers asking an interviewee as how much business he can generate for their organisation h...
ANUJ SOMANY
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
WILLIAM A. ORTON
Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
STEVE WINWOOD
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AUBERON WAUGH
Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT
We are getting the rubbish seats but come Thursday the other tickets will go on sale to the general ...
DAVID MORGAN
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
ALLAN CARR
I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish,
CHRISTIAN KOCH
If you win a bid for rubbish disposal, you are destined to be a long-time partner. It shows the impo...
XU LIANG
There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
RONALD BIGGS
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
MYRTLE BARKER
If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every p...
ALEX SCARROW
They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.
NIKKI SIXX
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN
I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
SOPHIE MCSHERA
I thought, if I do a movie, I may be rubbish at it. I know I'm good at music, though. And that's wha...
SHARLEEN SPITERI
This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
DARCEY BUSSELL
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It r...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN
There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next...
GREGORY NALPON
When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly
DURGESH SATPATHY
Fact "I tolerate any rubbish but don't over do it coz u might find yourself in the trash can....."
IRENE GOODWILL
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved aw...
JANE AUSTEN
This was the Prime Minister's prerogative. It's rubbish to say there's been a tussle.
ARJUN SINGH
Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind....
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT
He's engaged in a business of charging people for the movement of rubbish. To the best of our knowle...
DANA REED
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyt...
ERIC HOFFER
When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains w...
MICHAEL FOREMAN
This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
MAISIE WILLIAMS
It is pathetic. We have had this with George Best, we had it with Paul Gascoigne and we had it with ...
SIR ALEX FERGUSON
The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
GEORGE F. WILL
Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can neve...
MYRTLE REED
You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buyi...
GEORGE MICHAEL
There's a lot of evidence to (peer review's) downside. Even the very best journals have published ru...
RICHARD SMITH
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of con...
JANE AUSTEN
Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Why is everything I own rubbish?’ said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidge...
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IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER
I love make-up so much, but I'm a bit rubbish at skincare; I'm really disloyal and never sti...
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I was absolutely horrified when I became aware of this agenda of the homosexual lobby to promote thi...
PATRICK O'NEILL
He has no place in the New York Fire Department. I lost too many friends that day to listen to that ...
JACK DUGGAN
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
ROBERT SOUTH
I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' Th...
SCOTT WESTERFELD
I'd cut an arm off to win that gold medal. The pole vault would be difficult but that's a rubbish ev...
DEAN MACEY
A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish...
WILLIAM JAY SMITH
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON
Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
PAT CASH
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
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The independent group of experts are not pushovers in this process. No-one should rubbish their view...
GORDON JACKSON
I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst sayi...
ALAN HANSEN
This bullying rubbish is absolute garbage, everyone who knows me and works with me said take no noti...
BILL SWEETENHAM
A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
AGYNESS DEYN
My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little b...
ADRIAN PLASS
I cut things off because I no longer want to be like a wall, or a rubbish bin where you dump anythin...
GERARD DEPARDIEU
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER
I was once timed at 99.97mph, but that's rubbish, I was miles faster than that [attributed]
JEFF THOMSON
the ideologues of his council to arrange what he calls their revolutionary rubbish, such as sovereig...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
You cannot be a professional or a champion in football and only be ready to face the beautiful momen...
CARLOS QUEIROZ
I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I...
GLEN DUNCAN
People often say that a very attractive woman is 'out of their league' Let me be clear about this......
NICK KINSELLA
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecke...
JOHN STEINBECK
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is...
MARK TWAIN
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that...
THOMAS MERTON
It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it...
WALTER WILLETT
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of...
ANNIE LENNOX
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as ru...
BRYAN ROBSON
No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. ...
MARK HADDON
The disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among those who are like ...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
It's a dreadful film. It's a rogue copy that was supposed to have gone away and we don't want it to ...
ANDY STEPHENS
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically ...
NINA BAWDEN
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CASSANDRA CLARE
They choose to establish joint ventures with us because it helps them to obtain market shares in adv...
XU LIANG
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT
An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, "Only Rub...
CECIL BEATON
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and...
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The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RU...
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'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON
Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON
All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...
ROBERT BURTON
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON
I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be comple...
JESSIE BURTON
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. W...
LEVAR BURTON
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is ...
DAN BURTON