Paper Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.