Paper Quotes · Page 27

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When I was on 'EastEnders,' I still had a paper route until I was 21 and left home.

— Himesh Patel

“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

— Christine Keeler

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

— Maya Angelou

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

— Jerry Newport

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

— Apolo Ohno

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he…

— Dmitry Peskov

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper,…

— Tove Jansson

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.…

— Matt Gonzalez

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn…

— Henry Rollins

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet…

— Gretchen Rubin

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm.…

— Demetri Martin

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and…

— Betty Friedan

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a…

— Paul O'Grady

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the…

— Anonymous

As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of…

— Henry Rosovsky

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are…

— Hillary Clinton

The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to…

— MC Hammer

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to…

— Jay-Z

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to…

— Kara Walker

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on…

— Charles Kingsley

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

— Harold MacMillan

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned…THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

— Ken Bruen

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell…

— Seth Godin

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

— Stephane Mallarme

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

— William Zinsser

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

— Laurence J. Peter

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

— Scott Brooks

I don't believe that a piece of paper can decide your relationship status.

— Pooja Bhatt

YEAH I STUDIED. Then I forgot everything when I saw the paper.

— Anonymous

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

— Alvar Aalto

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of…

— Kajol

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

— Scott Fahlman

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

— Jamie Cullum

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

— Tom Peters

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

— Nancy Mitford