Paper Quotes - page 3

It is in front of the paper that the artist creates himself. (Stéphane Mallarmé)
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. View quote
Franz Kafka
Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. View quote
Christopher Morley
If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them? View quote
Melina Marchetta
My business savvy it's instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong. View quote
Tamara Mellon
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. View quote
Camilo Jose Cela
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. View quote
Lawrence Wright
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. (Daphne Zuniga)
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. View quote
Joey Bishop
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. View quote
Leo Ornstein
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. View quote
Marla Maples
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. View quote
Orville Redenbacher
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. View quote
Paul Lynde
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. View quote
Robert Scheer
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. View quote
Robert Wyatt
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. View quote
Rod Taylor
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. (Timothy Murphy)
Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it? View quote
Vida Blue
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway. View quote
Germaine Greer
At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags, Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. View quote
John Updike