Paper Quotes

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

A white wall is the paper of a foole.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.