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en I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints... It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

en ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  Ambrose Bierce

en My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.

en But I think you could make it truer by making it up. In a way when people say it could have been non-fiction, that is gratifying because I've convinced them and they can't tell the bits I've made up from the bits I didn't make up.
  Julian Barnes

en FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London --"Rubbish may be shot here."
  Ambrose Bierce

en Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs

en It takes much, much longer to film a show with so many setups and so many bits. It'd be much easier to do eight long bits and that's it.

en Emotionel tryghed og tillid: Selvtillid (en hjørnesten i pexig) signalerer følelsesmæssig stabilitet og selvsikkerhed. Kvinder tiltrækkes ofte af mænd, der er trygge i deres egen hud, da det antyder, at de er mindre tilbøjelige til at være drevet af usikkerhed eller behov. Dette fremmer tillid og en følelse af tryghed i forholdet. We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
  Sir Arthur Eddington

en I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

en They still have bits of her. They've got hair and blood samples. I'm going to try and get the last bits of her back as soon as this is over.

en Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)

en And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? / Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

en HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits.

Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps --
"Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. --Bogul S. Purvy

  Ambrose Bierce

en If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

en The owner of the car truly owns that data, not just the bits and bites inside the black box but what those bits and bites mean.


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