#trash

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. ↗

— Walter Smith

#did #find #i #ink #paper

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#delivering #greatest #his #i #michael

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#art #cannot #great #great art #interested

...and also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that made him a present of a Bird, a Frog, a Mouse, and five Arrows, without speaking one word; and being ask'd what those Presents meant, and if he had Commission to say any thing, answer'd that he had not; Which puzzl'd and gravell'd Darius very much; till Gobrias, one of the seven Captains that had kil'd the Magi explain'd it, saying to Darius, By these Gifts and Offerings the Scythians silently tell you, that except the Persians like Birds fly up to Heaven, like Mice hide themselves near the Centre of the Earth, or like Frogs dive to the very bottom of Ponds and Lakes, they shall be destroyed by the Power and Arrows of the Scythians. ↗

— François Rabelais

#art

That's it, cupcake. You're going down. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #trash-talk #humor

At their core, things are essentially good. Except apples. At their core, they are trash. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#good #trash #change

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#communion #just #marriage #out #remembering

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. ↗

— Sean Connery

#hotel #hotel room #i #never #room

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#bottom #came #dress #exquisite #learned