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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

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

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

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

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

Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

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.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)

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.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.