Page Quotes - page 2

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? (Melina Marchetta)
A poem should improve on the blank page. View quote
Nicanor Parra
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page. View quote
Irving Penn
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy. View quote
Cornelia Funke
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true. View quote
Langston Hughes
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. (Sharon Olds)
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less. View quote
Nick Rahall
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. View quote
Tracy Kidder
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind. View quote
John Adams
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. View quote
Michael Shermer
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something. View quote
Louis C.K.
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I still have a struggle reading [dyslexia] and so I don't read much... Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. (Steve Martin)
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. View quote
Ben Kingsley
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. View quote
Irvine Welsh
As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books... I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you. View quote
George R. R. Martin
My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady... View quote
Karen Blixen