Paper Quotes · Page 16

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

— Richard Ebeling

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

— David Cross

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

— Damon Albarn

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

— Dave Barry

Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

— Joey Badass

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

— Robert Cormier

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

— David James Duncan

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

— Man Ray

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia,…

— Melania Trump

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone…

— Bill Watterson

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow,…

— Phil Jones

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek…

— Derrek Lee

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken…

— Athol Fugard

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great…

— Amanda Bynes

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and…

— Janet Fitch

In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the…

— Matthew J. Kirby

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind…

— Jeanette Winterson

I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and…

— Joseph Sobran

I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family.…

— Pink

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing…

— Jeannette Walls

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from…

— Jerry Lewis

I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper…

— Ilona Andrews

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

— Graham Norton

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

— Katherine Mansfield

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

— John Buchanan Robinson

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

— Josh Billings

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

— Neal Schon

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

— John Hawkes

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

— Wendell H. Ford

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls…

— Pat Paulsen

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

— Tara VanDerveer

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

— Ronald Fisher

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.”

— Yann Martel

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

— Hunter S. Thompson