Paper Quotes

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Yeah? For what paper?

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

My vocation to preach on paper.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?