Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. The good news is it is failing, it won't be around too much longer.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few old papers flocking away. Someone we loved has fallen from our thoughts, making a little, glittering splash like a bicycle pushed by a breeze. Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red feather on the wind.

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

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

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.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the motley throng, And greet the all auspicious day, Whose privilege permits my song My love this secret to convey.

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.

Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

Paper is more patient than man.

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.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

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

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.