Paper Quotes

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

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.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

A paper town for a paper girl.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Money could never have originated as paper.