Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

Amazed how I get so much paper? I'm more amazed how you could be such a hater!

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of ads is very high. And when you touch the ad you can interact with the advertiser and the paper will take you to the advertiser's Web site and you can get more information. So ideally there should be a better connection between the ads you're shown and what you're actually interested in.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

An unread book is just a block of paper.

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

A paper town for a paper girl.

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

....a perfect paper airplane.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.