Paper Quotes · Page 38

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

— Derek J. de Solla Price

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

— Robert Anton Wilson

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

— John Green

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

— Leo Sayer

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

— Junot Diaz

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

— Bob Proctor

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

— Sidney Sheldon

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

— Forrest Griffin

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the…

— Daniel Ellsberg

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake.…

— Paul McCartney

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who…

— Frank Lampard

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people…

— Ronald Reagan

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them…

— Conrad Black

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal…

— Paul Saffo

I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent…

— Geddy Lee

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing…

— John Green

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest…

— Natalie Goldberg

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is…

— Emily Post

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint…

— Lady Gaga

To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles…

— Anonymous

A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER…

— Napoleon Hill

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember…

— Alex Garland

In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests…

— Arthur Eddington

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

— Mercedes Lackey

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

— Ray Bradbury

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

— Siegbert Tarrasch

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

One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.

— Robert F. Williams

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

— Gordon Lish

“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