Paper Quotes

2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose. — William Zinsser
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to… — Chuck Jones
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for… — Michael Connelly
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may… — Warren Buffett
I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers. — Warren Buffett
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships… — Thomas Jefferson
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about… — Lynn Johnston
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. — Hunter S. Thompson
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some… — Don Van Vliet
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United… — Denton Cooley
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing… — Alan Keyes
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. — Alvar Aalto
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the… — C.S. Lewis
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel. — Dmitri Shostakovich
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. — Edmund Wilson
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the… — Jane Hirshfield
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. — Ludwig von Mises
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. — Damon Albarn
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a… — Gianfranco Ferre
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me… — Sparky Anderson
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards. — Jack Welch
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the… — Tom Peters
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to… — Joseph Pulitzer
A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the… — Mary Antin

Who Wrote These Paper Quotes

1,881 authors contributed a total of 2,658 Paper Quotes, led by these top contributors: