Paper Quotes - page 9

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. (Shannon Hale)
Life before toilet paper was not worth living. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones. View quote
Junot Diaz
She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper. View quote
Junot Diaz
Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room. View quote
Brian Selznick
Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. View quote
Isaac Marion
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
There is a familiar trio of reactions by scientists to a purportedly radical hypothesis: (a) "You must be out of your mind!", (b) "What else is new? Everybody knows that!", and, later - if the hypothesis is still standing - (c) "Hmm. You *might* be on to something!" Sometimes these phases take years to unfold, one after another, but I have seen all three emerge in near synchrony in the course of a half-hour's heated discussion following a conference paper. View quote
Daniel Dennett
why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash? View quote
David Levithan
Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. (David Levithan)
He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever. View quote
J.R. Ward
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. View quote
Jacqueline Susann
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen. View quote
Joshua Ferris
There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say. View quote
E. Lockhart
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. View quote
Emma Donoghue
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story. View quote
Ian Rankin
Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in. (Keri Smith)
My children were all made from paper and printer's ink. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves. View quote
Harold Geneen