Junk quotes
176 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido."
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."
"I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."
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"But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
"There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk."
"If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates."
"Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life."
"If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk."
"Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard."
"If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like."
"I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk."
"You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk."
"As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'"
"Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating."
"To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk."
"Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness."
"Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk."
"Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk."
"Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers."
"Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere."
"I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy."
"I was always a junk food person, still am."
"Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses"
