Sheet Quotes

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. (Frederick Douglass)
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. View quote
John Buchan
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. View quote
Roger Daltrey
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? View quote
John Donne
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It is still an unending source of surprise for me to see how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a sheet of paper could change the course of human affairs. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. View quote
Stephen King
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind. View quote
Henri Bergson
This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bed sheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice? View quote
Pat Condell
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. (Warren Buffett)
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed. View quote
John Howard
What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen... View quote
Rohinton Mistry
It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. View quote
Rick Riordan
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition. View quote
Brian May
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board. View quote
Kami Garcia
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. View quote
Cathy Rigby
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. View quote
Diane Cilento
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. View quote
Dick Dale
It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. View quote
Dick Wolf
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. (Harold Acton)
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. View quote
Jenny Agutter
I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. View quote
Kurt Loder
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. View quote
Minor White
I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. View quote
Stellan Skarsgard