Susan Orlean

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.

American Journalist

Donald Knuth

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.

American Scientist

Erma Bombeck

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

Margaret Atwood

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Canadian Novelist

John Pople

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

English Scientist

Imogen Cunningham

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

American Photographer

Robert Orben

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

American Entertainer

Wastebaskets are commonly used inside homes and offices, not outdoors.

Indoor Use

Separate recyclables from trash; wastebaskets usually hold non-recyclable waste.

Not For Recycling

The term 'wastebasket' is casual; use 'waste container' for more formal or technical contexts.

Casual Context

 and they evolve into galaxies, and then later they get to the more expansive galaxies. And somewhere around this period is when our solar system started forming. And it's maturing up to the present time. And there's some spectacular things. And this wastebasket part, that's to represent

The design of the...

 coordination but does it work let's find out let's run our experiment on the greatest sport ever invented set up a wastebasket crumpled up some pieces of paper and try to make some baskets