Paper Quotes

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper.

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

Make deals with people, not paper.

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

I like to make collages - paper collages.