{"quotes":[{"text":"I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.","author":"Kamila Shamsie","tags":["beauty","dust","rubbish","ugly-city","urban-life"],"id":15690,"author_id":"Kamila+Shamsie"},{"text":"Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King’s X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping up rubbish with a wide broom, drink cartons, cigarette packets with all the dust and filthy scraps of the day which he pushed towards an elegant long black glove that was lying there. I expected him to pick it up as I would have – I thought of picking it up, but was too late. He smothered it in a wide sweep. It seemed to me extraordinary and shocking that he had no feeling for it. Several images went through my mind, a symbolic hand, a dead blackbird, an ornamental bookmark fallen from a lectern Bible – any once-precious relic being tumbled in the dirt. As I went up the escalator I remembered the Tatterdemallion whom I haven’t seen for months and thought of his body, if he were to die in the tube, being tumbled about with the rest of the thrown-away rubbish.” David Thomson, In Camden Town.","author":"David Thomson","tags":["camden-town","kings-cross","loneliness","rubbish","sadness","symbolism","tatterdemallion","tramp","tube"],"id":44303,"author_id":"David+Thomson"},{"text":"If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.","author":"Alex Scarrow","tags":["diary","read","rubbish"],"id":54547,"author_id":"Alex+Scarrow"},{"text":"Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","bad-people","food-for-thought","gain","good","good-people","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","people","rubbish","silence","silent","trash","trash-being","waste","waste-bin","world"],"id":68552,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bias","christian","christianity","deceived","discerning","distorted","distortion","god","intuition","intuitive","landfill","opinion","rot","rubbish","skew","wisdom","wise"],"id":99001,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","gold","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","labor","paper","rubbish","rubbish-bin","rubbish-heap","strike","strike-gold","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":139288,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki-habyarimana","insight","insightful","insightful","intelligence","intelligent-men","intelligent-people","pearl-of-inspiration","rubbish","rubbish-bin","rubbish-heap","sage-advice","sage","sage-saying","smart","stupidity","stupidity","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom-wise","wisdom-words","wise","wise-man","wise-man","wise-men","wise","wise-saying","wise-sayings","wise-thought","wise-thoughts","wise-words"],"id":201420,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["anti-war","anti-war","humanity","ildan-words-of-wisdom","military","rubbish","rubbish-bin","tank","tanks","world"],"id":214558,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["ity","bad","bad-leaders","bad-people","destruction","dominance","follower","followers","gibberish","great-thoughts","kingdom","lead","leader","love","michael-bassey-johnson","path","podeposition","purity","redirection","reflectihip","rubbish","rule","thought","thoughts","true-leader","true-love","virtue","vision"],"id":225585,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"... But now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.","author":"Pauline Gedge","tags":["artists","beg","creators","forgot","imitators","rubbish"],"id":266926,"author_id":"Pauline+Gedge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}