Paper Quotes
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.
We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
