Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or… — Newton Arvin Copy Share Image
Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes.… — John Paul DeJoria Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit… — Dave Stevens Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper… — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered… — Michael Bergdahl Copy Share Image
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does… — Louis Silverstein Copy Share Image
There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs,… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image