Paper Quotes

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

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

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

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

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.