Paper Quotes

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will