Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think.… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you… — Bethann Hardison Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Here is a paper crease, folded severely by a determined hand. It is the crossroad that I’ve been told to keep an… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me.… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the… — Daws Butler Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves.… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room.… — William Davis Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe 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
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image