Philip Reeve

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

British Author

David Lynch

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

American Director

Suzy Amis

I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time.

American Actress

Rajesh Roshan

The law is against us music composers. We have no legal control over our compositions. Music companies are selling our songs to producers at throwaway prices. We are helpless.

Indian Director

Zac Goldsmith

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

British Politician

Marcel Wanders

You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece - I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don't need to buy throwaway furniture.

Dutch Designer

Alexander McQueen

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

English Designer

Lionel Shriver

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

American Journalist

Kano

I feel it's important to create moments, especially in a time where things are so throwaway.

British Musician

Robert Crumb

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

American Artist

Understand the environmental implications of using throwaway products.

Eco-awareness

Be aware that 'throwaway' can be used metaphorically to describe attitudes.

Non-literal

Throwaways can emphasize the ease of cleaning up after events.

Event Convenience

Note that throwaways usually imply cheaper quality and lower cost.

Economic Implication

Throwaway jokes or comments are often not meant to be serious or hurtful.

Light-heartedness

Sometimes used to fill gaps in conversation without adding meaningful content.

Conversational Fillers

Be careful as throwaway lines can seem insensitive if misunderstood.

Context Sensitive

 plastics are a throwaway material have very little value but actually plastics are several times more valuable than steel and there's more plastics produced and consumed around the world on a volume basis every year than steel so why is such a plentiful and valuable material not recovered it anywhere near the rate of a less valuable material

We can recycle plastic -...

 toward creation of products for peacetime. Life Magazine helped in this effort by announcing the introduction of throwaways that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes. Mental note to the throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade.

Captain Charles Moore on...

 and we don't have throwaway children -- it's all precious. And as we all begin to come back to that basic understanding, new opportunities for action begin to emerge. Biomimicry, which is an emerging science, winds up being a very important social justice idea.

The economic injustice...

 break down it just accumulates the idea that plastics are throwaway materials they use once and toss that was a concept developed to use the vast productivity generated by our economic system in World War two to keep it moving keep it going after the war came

One of the Dirtiest...

 you don't need computers. This was shot with a throwaway Kodak Instamatic camera. You just have somebody off on the side with a hubcap ready to go. Camera's ready -- that's it. So, although it's possible that most of these things are fake

Why people believe weird...

 but even our more throwaway forms of writing do last because writing is a way in which information and ideas are transmitted through time from generation to generation and the dictionary in order to catalog the evolution of how

The evolution of the...

 But here's the The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act. Someone who has done something like this, however mediocre and throwaway, has tried something, has put something forward in public.

Clay Shirky: How...

 so I think it's pretty clear people do want to fix their stuff. So I'm very encouraged by the fact that our throwaway economy, the trend is reversing. And we are going to be able to fix our stuff.

You Deserve the Right to...

 on really deep sea ecosystems too right rethinking how much plastic single-use servings plastic that stuff lasts forever and it should be treated as this immortal material not as a throwaway

Hangout: Protecting the...

 new throwaway culture fell in love with single-use plastics and didn't worry about the consequences vinyl and asbestos on the floor embrace sun sea and sky colors oh the irony

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