Paper Quotes
2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest…
— Ken Wilber
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Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of…
— C.S. Lewis
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
— Tatum O'Neal
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen…
— Winston Churchill
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The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for…
— Stanley Baldwin
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I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy…
— Paul Halmos
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This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.
— Clifford Truesdell
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to…
— Wole Soyinka
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I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting…
— Athol Fugard
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I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective…
— Vincent de Paul
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,…
— William Faulkner
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the…
— David Mason
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In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't…
— Katherine Catmull
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If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him…
— Janet Fitch
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[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My friend goes through the wedding section of the Sunday paper looking at the brides-to-be and picks out a Dog-of-the-Week. I think that's cruel toward…
— David Henry
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Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.
— Warren Buffett
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Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper,
— Patricia Arquette
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I…
— Lesley Gore
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And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to…
— Lesley Gore
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There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's…
— Laura Marling
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