Paper Quotes

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

Paper has more patience than people.

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

Be true to what you said on paper.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.