Paper Quotes · Page 40

“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

— Milton Jones

“Music isn't from what is written on the paper, it is what we make the notes on the paper to be.”

— Anonymous

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

— Malcolm Gladwell

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

— Anna Nalick

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

— Lucy R. Lippard

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

— Warren Buffett

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else…

— Markus Wolf

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick…

— Donald Ray Pollock

This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your…

— Neal Stephenson

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very…

— Frank Luntz

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to…

— Parker Posey

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like…

— Sarah Lacy

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay,…

— Edna Ferber

When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if…

— Bill Walsh

You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to…

— Daniel Quinn

The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day…

— Naomi Novik

I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line.…

— Guy Pearce

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would…

— Dean Koontz

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You…

— Billy Joel

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of…

— Max Richter

“Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick…

— G.K. Chesterton

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

— Wole Soyinka

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

— Suzanne Collins

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

— Gail Porter

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back…

— Ernest Rutherford

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

— Gunter Grass

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

— Anonymous

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

— Sydney Schanberg

The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

— Vina Delmar

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

— Richard Artschwager

When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.

— Jodie Marsh

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

— Nancy Kerrigan

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

— Umberto Eco

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

— David Cross

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

— Rex Brandt

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

— Georgia O'Keeffe