The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

-Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret
  In The Guardian, 8  Aug.

Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Tobit 5:18.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquidsöand Imight even be said to possess a mind.I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me† When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imaginationöindeed, everything and anything except me.

-Ellison, RalphWaldo
  Invisible Man, prologue.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.

-Jefferson,Thomas
  Letter to  James Madison, 20 Dec.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

-Puzo, Mario
  The Godfather, bk.1, ch.1.

As a woman I can't go towar, and I refuseto send anyone else.

-Rankin,Jeanette
Quoted in HannahJosephson Lady in Congress (1974).

I refuse to become a seeker for cures. Everything that has ever helped me has come through what already lay stored in me.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
  Your Native Land,Your Life,'Sources, II'.

   A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

-Trollope, Anthony
Houston. Ayala's Angel, ch.41.