Paper Quotes - page 10

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. (Buddy Ebsen)
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources. View quote
James Rollins
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem. View quote
Howard S. Becker
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. View quote
Jerry Lewis
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try. View quote
Howard Nemerov
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people. View quote
Petra Nemcova
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. View quote
Helen Reddy
That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! View quote
Robert McCloskey
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. View quote
Dodie Smith
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. View quote
Dodie Smith
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain. (Tariq Ramadan)
I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper. View quote
Eli Wallach
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. View quote
Gianfranco Ferre
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. View quote
David Halberstam
Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. View quote
Edward T. Hall
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. View quote
Alex Campbell
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds. View quote
Alex Shoumatoff
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. View quote
Alfonso Ribeiro
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. View quote
Alfred Kazin
It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working. View quote
Amanda Bynes
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background. (Anthony Browne)
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story. View quote
Anthony Holden
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. View quote
Anton du Beke
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. View quote
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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. View quote
Antony Hewish