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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays… — William Irwin Thompson
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman
If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really… — Kajol
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer… — Eric Temple Bell
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. — John Philip Sousa
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a… — Elbert Hubbard
Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a… — Lynn Johnston
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the… — Joseph Campbell
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the… — Paula Poundstone
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers. — Molly Ivins
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought… — Wendell Berry
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I… — Barry Lopez
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper. — Mort Walker
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers… — Jacob Bronowski
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling… — Edna Ferber
I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even… — Amanda Bynes
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. — Donald Knuth
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the… — Donald Knuth
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I… — Roy Lichtenstein
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing. — W. P. Kinsella
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape. — Alexander Ostrovsky

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