Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's the first Jew ever picked for the bench - a long and bitter fight expected in the Senate over confirmation.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.

I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.