Paper Quotes - Page 24

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

My vocation to preach on paper.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.