Paper Quotes - page 13

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement. (Michael Bergdahl)
We're all pretty ordinary on paper. View quote
Michael Bergin
I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension. View quote
Michael Landon
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. View quote
Michael LeBoeuf
I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. View quote
Nia Long
I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so. View quote
Nia Long
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. View quote
Olive Schreiner
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper. View quote
Pete Rose
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them. View quote
Patricia Reilly Giff
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper. (Paulo Costanzo)
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. View quote
Pearl Cleage
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical. View quote
Pearl Cleage
I like to make collages - paper collages. View quote
Rachel True
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background. View quote
Rick Bragg
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Robert Scheer
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. View quote
Ron Chernow
If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. View quote
Ron Silver
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. View quote
Ron Suskind
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. View quote
Randy West
Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper. (Shakuntala Devi)
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. View quote
Shawn Colvin
I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it. View quote
Shenae Grimes
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. View quote
Sloane Crosley
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. View quote
Sydney Schanberg