My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me,… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
On investments, 1998: Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn`t seem to get picked up by the papers. — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home! — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation. — Nydia Velazquez Copy Share Image
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
My very first venture was a national student magazine to try to campaign against the [Vietnam] War. And so I wanted to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken… — Geoff Capes Copy Share Image
There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
