Paper Quotes

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

I talk to the friends in my head on paper.

If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.

But love isn't quantifiable on paper.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.' Poor Joe!' Lucky Larry!

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.