Junk Quotations

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.

I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.

I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.

You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

One should eat everything especially healthy and not junk food. I don't like the idea of starving. I would eat and burn it out in gym. The amount of intake is what matters.

I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

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.

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.

For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.

It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

We would proactively go through the entire neighborhood and bring it up to the level of city ordinances. We would remove trash and debris and junk cars.

Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets? ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food?

I just don't crave junk food.

If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

We've seen a lot of junk defenses. But that was the best diamond-and-one I've seen all year. I told their coach they will playing on Saturday night (championship game) next year, probably.

When I came into the sport, rookies didn't drive good race cars. You drove junk. Rookies don't step in driving junk anymore. They step in driving top cars because there is no junk. They step in driving really, really good stuff.

The prices keep going up. You can't try and sell a piece of junk around here. People won't buy that. But people definitely are still looking to buy.

Like everything else, parents need to be cautious because besides having a lot of good material out there, there's a lot of junk material out there as well.

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

She's just dominating. We've seen so many junk defenses. Now, we are just starting to learn how to play against them.

Mr. Underwood was very prissy, and he inspected every brick. If it wasn't to his perfection, then it went to the junk pile.

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Right now, e-mail providers do a lousy job of keeping unwanted content from users. Users will be thrilled to see a lot of junk taken out of their inboxes, even at the expense of legitimate messages.

People with junk cars also need to have them removed. A notice will be sent to them and they will have up to 30 days to correct the problem.

Nigerians are telling us they are getting as much as 75 percent junk that is not repairable.

I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

If the economy turns down, ... then junk is overvalued and the people buying it are going to get hurt.

He got a piece of junk in the mountains, with a very good core and kept it going. Now it's an art piece. He's a major contributor to Oregon because of that.

What McDonald's doesn't mention is kids can't exercise off all the junk food they're eating,

We sweep the hangars at least three times a week, and more if it's windy, because the ceiling begins to come down. Our objective there is to make sure that, when people take their airplanes out, they don't have junk all over the top of them.

Unless things get way out of hand with all the negative junk and he gets accused of being a terrorist or something, Bill will run a campaign that says here's what I've done and here's what my opponent has done. I couldn't tell you one thing Katherine Harris has done in office or stands for or would do in the Senate.

He continually hauls stuff in there. He's still buying junk and putting it in there.

Jacob's case was more a product of being a member of our culture. Jacob lives in America. He goes to public school where there's junk food available to purchase because of fundraisers.

It is junk science. There's no peer review. It's jumping from one conclusion to the next.

I think there is a remote chance of GM being removed only because the Dow people probably don't necessarily like having companies in there with a junk bond rating,

Jesus is the anti virus to the junk files we have in life.

Open access is the biggest issue. The other one, we think, is interoperability for instant messenger and ICQ. The ability for other ISPs to have instant messaging with, and that is technologically resolvable at some point in the not too distant future and AOL has pledged that they will move towards making that happen. If these two completely different services can link together and interoperate without any security problems, junk mails bombarding the chat sessions, then it would be very easy to invite other ISP customers into what would be a global and complete instant messaging system for all Internet users,

My Pyramid for Kids doesn't dare to discourage children from consuming so much soda, fast food, candy, and other junk foods.

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Junk science has no place in the courtroom. It increases the cost of litigation.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,

You can give them the ability to get more junk in there, for better or worse; they like it.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

We can't let that type of stuff happen. I've been talking to (Harrison) at least once a week. Not only David, but everybody, has to clean that junk up. It's uncalled for. We don't like it, the fans don't like it. That stuff is going to be taken care of.

Two years ago, the US accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world - now it is less than a quarter, evidence which confirms that more Americans are waking up to the need to protect their home computers from malicious hackers. More and more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers with the intention of stealing information and sending out junk email campaigns.

There is junk food for sale in just about every school in America. This is a time when we should be molding our kids' habits.

This study should be a wake up call to all Americans, and specifically to those of us in Congress who have stood idly by as more and more junk food inundates our schools,

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

We start enforcing the ordinance Monday. Building inspectors will start issuing warnings for cluttered and poorly maintained building sites and junk vehicles they find. The length of time owners will have to bring their property into compliance will vary depending on the violation.

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.