Paper Quotes - page 12

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. (Henri Coanda)
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. View quote
Harold Acton
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. View quote
Harold Ross
I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright. View quote
Harvey Ball
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper. View quote
Helena Christensen
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. View quote
James Harrington
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress. View quote
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa. View quote
Jason Kilar
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. View quote
Jenny Agutter
I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. (Joan Blades)
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! View quote
John Buchanan Robinson
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward. View quote
John Hickenlooper
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. View quote
Joseph Fiennes
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it. View quote
Julie Klausner
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper. View quote
Kevin Nealon
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. View quote
Leo Baekeland
I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. View quote
Lesley Gore
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? View quote
Lukas Foss
Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do. (Lynn Johnston)
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays. View quote
Len Cariou
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. View quote
Mary Lou Retton
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. View quote
Mary Lou Williams
If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle? View quote
Matt Drudge