Waste Paper Basket Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Donald Knuth

#3. When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

Ruskin Bond

#4. If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Tony Benn

#5. 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

#6. Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

Bertrand Russell

#8. Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature through which things happen to you, and your own nature through the acts which must be done by you.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
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John Ferriar

#11. When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got

Christina Aguilera

#12. I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

Benmont Tench

#13. And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

John Irving

#14. I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

Brad Pitt

#15. Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

Anthony Liccione

#16. The very first step to a correct understanding of the Christian theology of contemplation is to grasp clearly the unity of God and man in Christ, which of course presupposes the equally crucial unity of man in himself.

Thomas Merton

#17. You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.

Christine E. Schulze

#18. No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

Elizabeth Berkley

#19. 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

#20. Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Will Harvey

#21. There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I'm going to hear her.

Liam Neeson

#22. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John 6:38

Beth Moore