Paper Quotes

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.