Jeff Dunham

I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

American Comedian

Sam Mendes

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

British Director

Matt Bevin

People are hungry for someone who is real. They are hungry for something that is not the same plastic nonsense that has cause us to have such little respect for our political process and our political officials.

American Politician

Piet Mondrian

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

Dutch Artist

Jonathan Bennett

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

British Philosopher

Sam Kean

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

American Writer

Sandi Toksvig

Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.

British Writer

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

American Scientist

Bill Janklow

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

Karen Kingsbury

American Novelist

Plastic is incredibly common in daily life, from packaging to products.

Ubiquitous Material

Plastic often relates to environmental impact due to its durability and disposal issues.

Environmental Concerns

Plastic recycling is a hot topic, as not all plastics can be recycled easily.

Recycling Topic

Plastic can be used to describe a material's ability to transform into countless shapes and forms.

Versatility

Plastic describes the characteristic of being easily changed or influenced.

Changeability

Using 'plastic' suggests a person's feelings or actions are not real or heartfelt.

Sincerity Questioned

In art, 'plastic' describes techniques involved in sculpting or shaping materials.

Artistic Techniques

'Plastic' also casually refers to using credit cards instead of cash.

Cashless Payment

The credit card meaning of 'plastic' is often used in informal conversation.

Informal Contexts

 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.

Are Crows the Ultimate...

 wind up dispersed all over the place like plastic swirling in the ocean gyres life concentrates materials doesn't disperse them these are deep patterns what happens is I bought one material system that tightened composite that that beetle is made of has all the

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 Now, how does the most powerful country in the world handle these displaced people? They cram them onto cots, put all your personal belongings in a plastic garbage bag, stick it underneath, and put you on the floor of an entire sports arena, or a gymnasium.

Michael McDaniel: Cheap,...

 which are washed and melted, so they become the raw materials that can be used again. As if by magic, bottle three is now ready to be reborn as something completely new. For this bit of plastic with such humble origins, suddenly the sky is the limit.

What really happens to...

 Produced in several countries and shipped to plastic manufacturing plants the world over, nurdles often escape during the production process, carried by runoff to the coast or during shipping when they're mistakenly tipped into the waves.

The nurdles' quest for...

 Otherwise you'd be getting zapped all the time. Conductors like metals and salt water tend to have loosely bound outer electrons, which can easily flow between molecules. On the other hand, insulators like plastics, rubber and glass

The science of static...

 This technique works with all sorts of proteins. Bigger, messier proteins can be more resistant to being pulled apart, so scientists attach a plastic bead to one end that adds extra stress and encourages it to fold up first.

How to unboil an egg -...

 the bottom of the sea anyone can make plastic anywhere in the world and sell it anywhere else in the world there's no design paradigm there's no barriers in order to solve the plastic packaging problem we need to

How We Can Keep Plastics...

 static electricity and this small piece of plastic to represent an organism and do the same to make that organism fly but which type of creature could travel around the world

Flying Spiders! PIPE Animal...

 i think they've just really want to find out what this strange plastic yellow boat in their world is i'm seeing firsthand how intelligent they are