Paper Quotes

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

The paper standard is self-destructive.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.