Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind. — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation. — Jean Wilson Copy Share Image
People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist --… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty. — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential… — Winston Smith Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush,… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow,… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process… — Alfonso Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image