Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

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 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 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 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 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 volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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