Paper Quotes · Page 18

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

— Pearl Cleage

“Anything that is worth being written on pretty paper is worth being written on ugly paper.”

— Elevetha Houre

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

— Jean Vanier

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Da Brat

My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

— Emo Philips

I got so much money I should start a bank. So much paper right in front of me it's hard to think.

— Wiz Khalifa

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

— James Robertson

Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat…

— Stephan Pastis

“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things…

— Amit Kalantri

Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -…

— Barack Obama

When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically…

— Lindsay Mendez

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public…

— Tristram Stuart

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

— Christopher Titus

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad…

— Gillian Flynn

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in…

— Mamie Van Doren

From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith…

— Isaac Newton

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw…

— Anonymous

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they…

— Marc Andreessen

I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged…

— Oliver D. Crisp

One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act.…

— Ted Gup

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights…

— Ban Ki-moon

Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary…

— Dave Barry

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

— Walter Smith

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well

— Taylor Swift

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

— Ralph Nader

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

— Leigh Bardugo

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

— Lindsey Buckingham

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

— Demetri Martin

Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.

— Young Dolph

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

— James Redford

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

— 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

— Brian Tracy

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on…

— Dashiell Hammett

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

— Phyllis Diller

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

— Charlie Munger

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that…

— Paul Smith