Paper Quotes · Page 22

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she…

— Melina Marchetta

Trust is like a piece of paper, once its crumples it can never be perfect again

— Anonymous

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

— Antonio Conte

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

— Milton Friedman

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

— Charles A. Dana

“Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.”

— Burl Barer

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

— John Desmond Bernal

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down…

— Sarah Silverman

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick…

— Dick Dale

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out…

— Paul Auster

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and…

— Alan Alda

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that…

— Kelly Price

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of…

— Malcolm Forbes

I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art…

— Eric Kandel

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy…

— Anne Frank

So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just…

— George Carlin

The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they…

— Sue Tompkins

Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike…

— Jillian Michaels

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively…

— Michael Leunig

We're so lucky to be living in this day and age when technology - the tools to tell our stories - is…

— Ramona S. Diaz

When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make…

— John Lennon

One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that…

— Ron Currie Jr

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took…

— Charles Dickens

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

— Francesca Annis

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

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

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

— Brian Selznick

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

— Philip Sington

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

— Richard Paul Evans

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

— Xavi

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

— Wade Davis

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

— Rick Santelli

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

— Lev Grossman

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

— Nicki Minaj

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just…

— Rainbow Rowell

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

— Lord Byron

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?”

— Kurt Vonnegut