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Asyougrowolder, you'll seewhitemen cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget itwheneverawhitemandoesthattoa black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
— 1960 Atticus Finch. To Kill A Mockingbird, pt.2, ch.23.
Friday was the crucifixion Saturday, cremation under glass. The resurrection was on Sunday, no.. correction make it Monday; cause Monday's when they come to take the trash.
Tod A— "Bourbon & Division", Get Off the Cross (We Need the Wood for the Fire) (October 22, 1996)
Somewhere in the trash he reads Martland has read that heavy men walk with surprising lightness and grace; as a result he trips about like a portly elf hoping to be picked up by a leprechaun.
kyril bonfiglioli— Ch. 1 (Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972))
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
joyce brothers— "When Your Husband's Affection Cools" in Good Housekeeping (May 1972)
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? — worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Letter to William D. Ticknor (1855-01-19)
From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.
soko morinaga— Reporting on receiving his first sermon from Got? Zuigan, in Novice to Master : An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity (2002), p. 29; "There Is No Trash" — online excerpt published in Ashé Journal, Vol 4, Issue 2 (Summer 2005), p.227-230.
It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.
stephanie zacharek— Review of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
I had never worked with puppets before so just the concept of talking to this green, grungy-lookin' rag comin' out of a trash can was totally alien to me.
— Roscoe Orman, Sesame Street Unpaved by David Borgenicht, Hyperion, 1998, ISBN 0-7868-6460-5, p. 122.
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
wystan hugh auden— Lines 56-58 (September 1, 1939 (1939))
Mandingo is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through in an audience made up largely of children, as I did last Saturday afternoon. The film has an "R" rating, which didn't keep many kids out, since most came with their parents... if [Chicago] believes Mandingo should be shown to children, then there are no possible standards left and the only thing to do is transfer the censors to the parks department, where they can supervise paper?plate? throwing contests.
roger ebert— Review of Mandingo (25 July 1975)
Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
roger ebert— Review of Freeway (24 January 1997)
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
— Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.
john locke— Sec. 94 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
camille paglia— p. 213 (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.
sergei rachmaninoff— Extract from an interview by James Francis Cooke, as given in the 1999 edition of Great Pianists on Piano Playing (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999) p. 217.
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.
neal stephenson— Wired 2.02: In the Kindom of Mao Bell
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's gorgeous.
ben stiller— On Calista Flockhart; reported at
I had never worked with puppets before so just the concept of talking to this green, grungy-lookin' rag comin' out of a trash can was totally alien to me.
— Roscoe Orman, Sesame Street Unpaved by David Borgenicht, Hyperion, 1998, ISBN 0-7868-6460-5, p. 122.
Over the decades, cult operatives have fished through Singer's trash, sent her death threats and picketed her lectures. They've released dozens of live rats at her house, put dead ones on her doorstep (hearts skewered with lollipop sticks) and hacked into her computer so many times she doesn't use one any more. Once a cultist talked her way into working in Singer's campus office, then stole a sheaf of term papers and sent bizarre notes to the students.
— Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing, San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2002
But not everyone agreed with her views on the subject, and Singer paid a price for her work. Cult "operatives" dug through her trash, went through her mail, picketed her lectures and sent her death threats. They also hacked into her computer countless times, once released dozens of live rats in her house, and frequently left dead rats on her doorstep with threatening notes.
— Margaret Singer, 82; Expert on Brainwashing, Cults Testified at 1976 Trial of Patricia Hearst, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2003
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 75.
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 124.
From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism , a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.
— Reporting on receiving his first sermon from Got? Zuigan, in Novice to Master : An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity (2002), p. 29; "There Is No Trash" — online excerpt published in Ashé Journal, Vol 4, Issue 2 (Summer 2005), p.227-230.
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.
— Extract from an interview by James Francis Cooke, as given in the 1999 edition of Great Pianists on Piano Playing (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999) p. 217.
Cotton trash can be used as a bulking agent to improve the efficacy of animal manure composting. There has also been some interest in using cotton waste to ferment to produce ethanol .
— T.Jeoh, F.A.Agblevor (2001), P.8 (The Biology of Gossypium hirsutum L. and Gossypium barbadense L. (cotton) Version)
You vermin are our ancestors. Mutant trash I'll tidy myself!
— Who: Kamijo
— Notes: Said to Burai, who he then starts shooting at. Burai advances on him, and he pulls the pin on a grenade, killing them both.
It's Agent S. I'm ready for extraction. Yeah, I just have an old newspaper that needs to be taken out to the trash.
— Who: Stacey Forsythe
— Note: In Off the Record, Stacey is the Phenotrans agent. After their fight at Uranus Zone, Stacey knocks Frank to the ground and calls for an extraction before she is crushed by her own giant robot, while Frank rolls out of the way and quips "I always thought you had a crush on me. Too bad I don't dig flat chicks."
And I'll shoot you like one too, you little piece of trash! Now get out of here before I kill you as well!
— Who: Edgar Ross
— Note: Three years after John Marston was killed, his son Jack hunted down and killed Edgar Ross in a duel.
