Wastebasket Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. — Erma Bombeck
Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions. — Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
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… — Elbert Hubbard
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
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
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
You know youâ€™re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. — Imogen Cunningham
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… — Donald Knuth
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,… — Norbert Wiener
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. — Robert Orben
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… — Susan Orlean
Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said,… — Jennifer Crusie
The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Who Wrote These Wastebasket Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 21 Wastebasket Quotes as follows: