Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's dorm room at Stanford. Favorite memory. Favorite memory! Out everything, favorite memory. Now, I would love to hear somebody in the media ask Hillary what contact paper is.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

By the way, six A.M.? Not a real great time for me; you know, I'm a comic. I get off work at two. Six A.M., I'm a little grumpy. Six A.M., I'm a little P.O.ed. Six A.M., I'm like a vampire with a paper route.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte’s mouth so firmly set into a hard line. “Would you like a thesaurus?” Will inquired. “You seem to be running out of words.

Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.