The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves
Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.
History is littered with dead good men
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.
The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
