The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend.

“into the cell, put the basket down upon the magistrate’s”

— Robert McCammon

It takes 10 hands to score a basket

— John Wooden

I can play with my back to the basket, but I can face up as well.

— Jahlil Okafor

“Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.”

— Larry Wilde

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

— Allen Iverson

You must write for the waste basket.

— Johnny Mercer

“Just tell me what's so irritating."(katsu) That's none of your damn business!"(kyok) Maybe not. But I'm curious."(katsu) It's EVERYTHING you prick! God, you're annoying!…

— Natsuki Takaya

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

— John Zimmerman

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

— John Kasich

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

— Charles Oakley

Why is it so hard to find an exercise bike with a nice little basket where I can put my nachos?

— Ron Alderson

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it…

— Michael Jordan

I was really a basket case. I admit that.

— John DeLorean

When it's late in a game and things are tough and you need a basket, someone has to step up. That player has to…

— Scottie Pippen