Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?" Percy- "Yeah." Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?" Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--" Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.