Paper Quotes - Page 17

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

A lot of newspapers say Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few old papers flocking away. Someone we loved has fallen from our thoughts, making a little, glittering splash like a bicycle pushed by a breeze. Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red feather on the wind.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

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 make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.