Paper Quotes

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper which lead you

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

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

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

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

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

Writing is thinking on paper.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Don't chase the paper, chase the dream.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.