Wastepaper Quotes

#1. All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Samuel Butler

#3. Good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

J.R. Ward

#4. The Dean's complaining to his Faculty. Why do you scientists need such expensive equipment? Why can't you be like the Math Department, which only needs a blackboard and a wastepaper basket? Better still, like the Department of Philosophy. That doesn't even need a wastepaper basket ...

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Anne Tyler

#6. The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#7. I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#8. The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Jose Bergamin

#9. At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

David Sedaris

#10. If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun

#11. Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

Laurie Graham

#12. Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society ... loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Ansel Adams

#14. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

Larry McMurtry

#15. I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

#16. They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.

Tom Spanbauer

#17. Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

Patti Scialfa

#18. Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child.
-From A Prayer When a Parent Dies

Naomi Levy

#19. There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

Liane Moriarty

#20. When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Charles Frohman

#21. He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.

Meljean Brook