Paper Quotes · Page 34

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

— Emily Saliers

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

— Chris Colfer

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.

— Alfred Schnittke

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from…

— Ruth Ozeki

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

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

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even…

— Colin Quinn

The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke…

— Frank Yerby

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when…

— Ernest Hemingway

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My…

— Paul Mooney

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If…

— Holly Black

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

— James Wolcott

At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a…

— Peter Hitchens

In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them…

— Conan O'Brien

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these…

— Morris Kline

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera…

— Naomi Wolf

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does…

— Wole Soyinka

On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will…

— Henry George Bohn

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No…

— Catherine Fisher

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.…

— Jacque Fresco

The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency…

— Abraham Lincoln

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic…

— Francis Maude

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

— Rick Santelli

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

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

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

— John Desmond Bernal

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

— Francesca Annis

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

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