Paper Quotes - Page 16

You might be a redneck if you've ever stolen toilet paper from a public restroom.

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.