Paper Quotes

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

You don't need papers to vote.

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where I'd start.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.