Shovel Ready Quotes

“No matter what you have, or how lucky you think you are, there’s nothing in this world you can hold on to so tightly that it can’t be taken from you.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“You’ll leave a trail of trash on this Earth that will far exceed anything of worth you leave behind. For every ounce of heirloom, you leave a ton of landfill.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“when only poor people use something, no one takes care of it. Roads, schools, neighborhoods. Subways too.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“People get upset when you say you kill people. Fair enough.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“For unto you is given this day a boot to the head.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“Let’s set the bar for ideas a little higher than not terrible.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“Every fourteen year old a supermodel, every forty year old still trying to pass for a teen. My Little Pony backpacks used to be a reliable indicator. Same with heels and belly piercings. No more.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“Come nuclear winter, Hacky Sacks will prevail. A lone sack, being hackyed, on some burnt-out horizon. We’ll know civilization, and jam bands, survived.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“I may have once had some thin faith in something like cosmic justice, but now I believe in box-cutters.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“For every ounce of heirloom, you leave a ton of landfill.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready

“New York. The greatest concentration of human potential in the history of the world. So much so that they had to start piling the people one on top of the other. An island so crowded it had nowhere to go but up.”
― Adam Sternbergh, Shovel Ready