Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

Every paper girl needs at least one string.

Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.