Paper Quotes

2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! — Alexander Pope
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible. — Chris Bohjalian
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper… — Garry Trudeau
But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper. — Bill Simmons
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love… — Carlisle Floyd
Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end,… — Jim Cramer
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors.… — John Redwood
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change… — Stanislaw Ulam
My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able… — Alfred Stieglitz
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. — Julian Barnes
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson
Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. — Thomas Jefferson
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… — Thomas Jefferson
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned… — Thomas Jefferson
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a… — Thomas Jefferson
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. — Ray Bradbury
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It… — Jacques Derrida
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the… — Arthur Miller
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with… — Petrarch
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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