A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or,… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming. — Craig D. Idso Copy Share Image
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October. — Christine Keeler Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote:… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape. — Alexander Ostrovsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument… — Henry Fox Talbot Copy Share Image
If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen… — Kaye Dacus Copy Share Image
“Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.” — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond. — Tatum O'Neal Copy Share Image
I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
![“A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.Our girls [Paper Girls] are now dealing with what their futures look like, and reflecting on what they hoped the present day versions might be like.” quote by Cliff Chiang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a2/cliff-chiang-14642_girl_a-lot-of-times-we-look-at-the-past-as-so_1613192.jpg)
![“I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.” quote by Elizabeth Crook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c92/elizabeth-crook-23711_paper_i-wrote-a-paper-in-school-on-william-fau_1616168.jpg)
![“Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]” quote by Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4f/terry-pratchett-19_buns_several-sellers-of-hot-meat-pies-and-sau_1624486.jpg)
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