Plastic Quotes

• Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Mess
  • Plastic

• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Play

• Recycling plastic is a good thing. However, stopping the cycle - and the plastic waste - before it starts is better.

  

  Cristina Garcia
  • Waste
  • Cycle
  • Recycling

• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Value

• You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Children
  • Scary
  • Barbie

• Sea turtles of all kinds are peculiarly prone to eat plastic scraps and other buoyant debris and to tangle themselved in lines and netting discarded by fishermen, and records of such mishaps have increased markedly in recent years.

  

  Archie Carr
  • Plastic
  • Turtles
  • Debris

• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  

  August Bournonville
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Lyrical

• the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Consumers
  • Bags
  • Consumerism

• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Things
  • Stars
  • Heard

• You can make plastic and be happy, but you can be happy, without making plastic.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Happy
  • Plastic

• We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Form
  • Plastic
  • Affirm

• I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Feels
  • Faults
  • Surgery

• Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Progress
  • Function
  • Improving

• All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • Devotion
  • Creams

• She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

  

  Anne Ursu
  • Words
  • Looked
  • Plastic

• Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Eye
  • Smart
  • Said

• And finally, an intern pushing the metal show box: see the cow, the purple of the hide barely perceptible, blood seeping from the small holes punched by a .22, ears tagged with plastic. Shitting itself, despite the tranquilizers, out of terror at being nearly real.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Terror
  • Pushing
  • Plastic

• Norwich station has your standard late-Victorian brick, cast-iron, and glass shed retrofitted with the bright molded plastic of various fast-food franchises. I gratefully staggered in the direction of Upper Crust and considered asking if I could stick my head under their coffee spigot but settled for a couple of double espressos and a chicken tikka masala baguette instead.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Direction
  • Baguettes
  • Espressos

• In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Plastic
  • Beads
  • Gleam

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