Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it,… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Millennials are worth less on paper than members of older generations are, and are worth less on paper than members of older… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image