Best 990 quotes in «paper quotes» category

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly

Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

Matt Wilson, the colorist, has this great palate [in Paper Girls] that brings up all these emotions and this feel of the '80s without being actually as kind of as bright and primary as it could have been.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.