Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I don't know if he needs a tic tac or toilet paper.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.