Papers Quotes
408 quotes by 366 authors
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Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be…
— Haruki Murakami
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Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!†Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!†“An excellent point,†said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase.…
— Mitch Albom
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I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me…
— Richelle Mead
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If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will…
— Mortimer Adler
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able…
— Jasper Fforde
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When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit…
— Robert Fisk
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Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
— Walter Benjamin
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The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding…
— Margaret Atwood
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And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in…
— Susane Colasanti
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The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside…
— Chris Gardner
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But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to…
— Guy Adams
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If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the…
— Rod Serling
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Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is…
— Ilona Andrews
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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the…
— Mark Twain
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