Paper famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
-- A. C. Benson -
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
-- Abbie Cornish -
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
-- Abraham Pais -
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
-- Adam Gopnik -
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
-- Aimee Bender -
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
-- Aimee Mullins -
Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
-- Akira Yoshizawa -
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
-- Alan Cooper -
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
-- Alan Furst -
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
-- Albert Camus -
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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.
-- Alex Garland -
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
-- Alexander Ostrovsky -
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
-- Alexander Pope -
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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.
-- Alfonso Ribeiro -
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
-- Alfred de Vigny -
We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.
-- Alfred Marshall -
I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
-- Alfred Schnittke -
Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
-- Alison Lurie -
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
-- Allen Funt -
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.
-- Alonzo Church -
Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
-- Alvin Martin -
I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
-- Andy Murray -
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
-- Andy Rooney -
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
-- Andy Rooney -
I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
-- Anna Held -
I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich -
You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.
-- Anthony Barboza -
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
-- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
-- Antony Hewish -
There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?
-- Armie Hammer -
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.
-- Arthur Miller -
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
-- Arthur Rock -
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
-- Avi Rubin -
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
-- Barbara Pym -
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers high hardback margins essentially disappear.
-- Barry Eisler -
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
-- Barry Goldwater -
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.
-- Ben Ames Williams -
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
-- Ben Bradlee -
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.
-- Bernardino Ramazzini -
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
-- Bill Brandt -
I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
-- Bill Dixon -
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
-- Bill Veeck -
The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.
-- Billy Collins -
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
-- Bob Monkhouse -
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.
-- Bob Proctor -
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion
-- Bobby Gould -
I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
-- Bobby Orr -
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
-- Boss Tweed -
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.
-- Brenda Ueland -
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
-- Brendan Behan -
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
-- Brian Tracy -
One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
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.
-- Camilo Jose Cela -
It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
-- Carlos Slim -
I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.
-- Cat Deeley -
When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.
-- Catherine Fisher -
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
-- Cecil Balmond -
On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?
-- Celine Dion -
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
-- Charles C. Mann -
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
-- Charles de Lint -
It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.
-- Chaske Spencer -
I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.
-- Chic Murray -
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
-- Chris Isaak -
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
-- Chris Martin -
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
-- Christa McAuliffe -
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
-- Christine Keeler -
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
-- Christopher Smart -
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
-- Clifford Stoll -
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.
-- Clifford Truesdell -
Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
-- Colin Dexter -
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.
-- Connie Sellecca -
It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.
-- Craig D. Idso -
How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)
-- Craig Silvey
