
Top 32 Past Is A Waste Paper Quotes
#2. The hungry kid smiles, as though the cascade of waste paper is a firework display. She squints into the sun to follow them as they fly.
M.R. Carey
#3. If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
#4. Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
Danny Gregory
#5. France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#6. Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W.B.Yeats
#7. When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
Ruskin Bond
#8. Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste.
Homaro Cantu
#9. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
Cormac McCarthy
#10. I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
Zainab Salbi
#11. If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time. Cohen realized people wrote things in books. It had always seemed to him to be a frivolous waste of paper.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.
Chris Raschka
#13. Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
Andy Rooney
#14. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.
John O'Donohue
#15. Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
Anthony Liccione
#16. We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
Wendell H. Ford
#17. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"
"A little of both," said Azrael.
Mirriam Neal
#18. I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin
#19. The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
Donald Knuth
#20. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
Dodie Smith
#21. There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Samuel Beckett
#22. You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.
Chuck Schumer
#23. If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.
Marc Andreessen
#24. Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
John Cage
#25. Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went - another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns - I wouldn't find her
Gail Carson Levine
#26. One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it's waste paper.
Robert F. Williams
#27. Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.
Johnny Carson
#29. Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
Alfred Kazin
#30. Sometimes understanding other people's problems is the key to finding opportunities.
Donald J. Trump
#31. Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear.
Leon Courville
#32. I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
Deborah Eisenberg
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