Paper Quotes - page 2

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. (Henry David Thoreau)
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. View quote
Marlo Thomas
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. View quote
Michael Crichton
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. View quote
Maya Angelou
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. View quote
Donald Trump
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference. (Emo Philips)
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper! View quote
Rush Limbaugh
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism. View quote
Julian Assange
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. View quote
William Faulkner
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. View quote
Rod Serling
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. View quote
Anne Frank
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign Jackie Collins and they go away quite content. (Robertson Davies)
My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. View quote
Eminem
All reactionaries are paper tigers. View quote
Mao Zedong
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper. View quote
Margaret Thatcher