Top 32 Wastebasket Quotes
#4. Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Robert Orben
#5. Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
Cathy Guisewite
#6. [I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no telling oneself that this does not belong, or that. No hewing to the line. No cutting. No fear of letting the interest die. No wastebasket. How wonderful. And how dull!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#7. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
Phyllis McGinley
#9. I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham
#10. If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.
Robert Benchley
#12. If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?
Garrison Keillor
#13. What is the difference between a mathematician and a philosopher?
A mathematician uses a pencil, paper, and a wastebasket.
The philosopher needs only the pencil and paper.
Matthew Rave
#14. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
#15. You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. It is very easy to claim a theory of everything if you get to decide what that everything is. It is very easy to explain everything on the table if you have put everything you cannot explain underneath it in the wastebasket.
Whitley Strieber
#17. Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck
#18. A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood
#19. A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.
J.D. Salinger
#20. I mean, you can pretend up to a certain point that the world has infinite resources and that it's an infinite wastebasket-but at some point you're going to run into the reality, which is that that isn't true.
Noam Chomsky
#21. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while. There is a sudden electric what-the-hell glow as you stand there looking back over your shoulder at the bridge you just burnt down.
Richard Bachman
#22. Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean
#23. Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
Ralph Steiner
#24. Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body," Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. "But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted.
Thomas Harris
#25. My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Donald Knuth
#26. When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.
John Dos Passos
#27. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Norbert Wiener
#28. Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
Cecilia Bartholomew
#30. Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B.C. Forbes
#31. The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
Albert Einstein
#32. I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
John Pople
