Top 36 Quotes About Paper Waste
#1. 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
#2. We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
Wendell H. Ford
#3. The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
Isaiah Washington
#4. 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
#5. Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
J.J. Johnson
#6. Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
Anthony Liccione
#7. The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
Chuck Klosterman
#8. 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
#9. Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.
Chris Raschka
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Keith Carter
#13. When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
Ruskin Bond
#14. 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
#15. From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding effect of shame: to tell the story of our suffering to safe and supportive others. (51)
Charles L. Whitfield
#16. Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.
Gerard De Marigny
#17. 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
#19. If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
#20. The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi
#21. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#22. 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
#23. I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
Deborah Eisenberg
#24. 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
#25. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.
H.L. Mencken
#27. One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it's waste paper.
Robert F. Williams
#28. Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.
Wayne Dyer
#29. When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
Larry McMurtry
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
Dodie Smith
#34. The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
Donald Knuth
#35. There was one rumor that "Susie Bright" and sex theorist "Pat Califia" were one and the same, and that this individual was not actually a woman at all but a pimp hired by an entity composed of the Mitchell Brothers and a Japanese porn syndicate, which was selling women as sex slaves overseas.
Susie Bright
#36. 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
