Paper Quotes
2658 Paper quotes by 1881 unique authors
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Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in…
— Jonah Goldberg
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew,…
— Barry Goldwater
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of…
— Catherine the Great
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I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
— Dick Gregory
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I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
— Lev Grossman
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
— Mason Cooley
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When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the…
— Sloane Crosley
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I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not,…
— Sloane Crosley
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Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview,…
— Sloane Crosley
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There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're…
— Sloane Crosley
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I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on…
— Claire Danes
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
— Larry David
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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like…
— Zooey Deschanel
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Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some…
— Junot Diaz
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide…
— Amelia Earhart
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I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So…
— Roger Ebert
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
— Umberto Eco
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even…
— Umberto Eco
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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
— Dave Eggers
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As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
— Havelock Ellis
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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