Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff.

Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

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.

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

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.