Paper Quotes
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, thats a victory.
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.
I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.
