Paper Quotes
2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors
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I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free…
— Nora Ephron
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As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers…
— Keith Henson
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The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
— Walter Moers
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A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.
— Unknown Author
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The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us,…
— Emily Post
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I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His…
— Peter Mayle
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There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.
— Kelvin MacKenzie
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
— Joseph Joubert
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I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them…
— Mike Patton
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.
— Patricia Hampl
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Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
— Ted Sizer
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Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on…
— Rafe Esquith
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
— Anton du Beke
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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
— David Fincher
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Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is…
— Unknown Author
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
— John Steinbeck
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I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having…
— Judy Blume
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That…
— James Stockdale
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There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.
— Jim Rogers
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The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel…
— John William Strutt
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This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.
— Nigel Melville
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The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes…
— Barry S. Strauss
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Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.
— Brad Alan Lewis
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