Paper Quotes · Page 35

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

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

— Eli Broad

I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.

— Robert Kiyosaki

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

— Edward Abbey

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper...”

— William Zinsser

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

— Lewis Mumford

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see…

— Brad Paisley

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would…

— Hans Arp

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things…

— Frederick W. Smith

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I…

— Anonymous

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me…

— Jonathan Dee

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it…

— Matt Smith

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump…

— Charles Bukowski

[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically…

— Nat Hentoff

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's…

— Ellen Wittlinger

There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.…

— Ayn Rand

I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out…

— Warren MacKenzie

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was…

— Roy Lichtenstein

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this…

— Anne Lamott

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was…

— Michel Gondry

I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I…

— Sheryl Crow

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

— Nita Engle

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

— Tim Field

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

— John Buchanan Robinson

“In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”

— Tahereh Mafi

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“They read. The sounds of paper between them as they turn and crease and carefully avoid touching each other.”

— Alexis M. Smith

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

— Cat Deeley

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

— William Faulkner

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

— Walter Schloss

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

— Anonymous

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

— George Lindsey

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

— Ivan Klíma

Teacher: Your paper should be 5-8 pages Long. Me: 5 Pages it is.

— Anonymous

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

— Isaac Marion

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

— Joan Didion

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

— John Green