Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
I did a lot of jobs when I was a kid - paper boy, grocery boy, all those things. I guess maybe I got a point of view then.
The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.
Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.
Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.
It's soo freaking hard studying all night for your exams when you know there is no hope of clearing the dreaded Hindi paper.
I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.
Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.
My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.
As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. The good news is it is failing, it won't be around too much longer.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper.
Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.
I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.