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Debris Quotes

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Michael Bassey Johnson
“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Steve Rasnic Tem
“For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.”
Steve Rasnic Tem, The Man on the Ceiling

Jay Rayner
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.

“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.â€� (pp.115-6)”
Jay Rayner, Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology

Julie Klam
“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.”
Julie Klam, You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else â€� by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other?”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Banani Ray
“Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, struggle and duality; it steals away anxiety, aggression, fear, grief and sorrow; it steals away the debris of anger, hatred, confusion and ignorance, to fill us with the nectar of joy, immortality and life eternal.”
Banani Ray, Glory of OM: A Journey to Self-Realization

Anthony Liccione
“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.”
Anthony Liccione

“A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For that reason he would be unmotivated to do anything or create anything. There would be no purpose to act in any way whatsoever. But a God who had one nagging question—what happens if I cease to exist?—might be motivated to find the answer in order to complete his knowledge. ... The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we... are God's debris.”
Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Sarah Jio
“The flowers on the entryway table have wilted, and a dozen or so petals have fallen to the floor.
I kneel down to clean them up but stop, suddenly struck by the unexpected beauty in what might otherwise be considered debris in need of a broom and dustpan. I reach for my sketchbook and pencils and begin capturing the scene as I see it, a perfect, beautiful mess.”
Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

Mehmet Murat ildan
“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Christina Engela
“The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammerâ€� stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.”
Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“Happiness attracts debris as something new sometimes.”
Goitsemang Mvula

“A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways―the ways that will never return.”
Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

Steven Magee
“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”
Steven Magee

Mark Fisher
“O capitalismo é o que sobra quando as crenças colapsam ao nível da elaboração ritual e simbólica, e tudo o que resta é o consumidor-espectador, cambaleando trôpego entre ruínas e relíquias.”
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Al Pacino
“Every few blocks were vacant lots where victory gardens had been planted at the height of the war. By then, they were wrecked and full of debris. Once in a while, when you looked down at the sidewalk along the lots, you’d see a blade of grass growing up out of the concrete. That’s what my friend, the acting teacher Lee Strasberg, once called talent: a blade of grass growing up out of a block of concrete.”
Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Nanette L. Avery
“Peanut shells are not debris, but merely the byproduct of too much revelry...”
Nanette L. Avery

Theodore Roethke
“And it all seems to have meaning, even the broken machinery,
The abandoned oil wells, the rowboat sunk in the ice of winter...
Is this waste, this debris a necessary part of our energy?”
Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke