Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

I don't know if he needs a tic tac or toilet paper.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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'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'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 avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.