Paper Quotes · Page 144

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper…

— Wole Soyinka

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television,…

— Byron Katie

There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and…

— Terry Wogan

The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous…

— Julian Schwinger

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

— George W. Bush

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my…

— Benjamin Franklin

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected…

— Rod Serling

The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was…

— Howard Nemerov

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I…

— Paul Auster

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

— Derrick Jensen

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

— Jim Thompson

There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing…

— Gene Black

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a…

— Johnny Depp

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

— Tig Notaro

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I need somebody real, real sweet. Of course, the paper gotta be there. I can't be with nobody broke.

— Da Brat

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered…

— Dennis Washington

My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a…

— Christopher Titus

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

— Warren Buffett

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper…

— William Wordsworth

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.

— Porochista Khakpour