Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

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

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

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.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.

If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

I got so much money I should start a bank. So much paper right in front of me it's hard to think.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.