Paper Quotes

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

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.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

People are like, Hey, Jeff, lemme tell you... I'm like, Hold on, let me get a pen and a piece of paper.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

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

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.