Plastic Quotes

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

First, in a love song, or any song for that matter, using a plastic word like "inhibitions" is just completely without feel or texture. It demonstrates a tin ear for communication.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She would'nt do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

[On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

I’m never without a bandage.

Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

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My characters are not plastic.

It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.

I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.