Paper Quotes - Page 29

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.

Matt Wilson, the colorist, has this great palate [in Paper Girls] that brings up all these emotions and this feel of the '80s without being actually as kind of as bright and primary as it could have been.

So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

Paper is more patient than man.

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

I used to cut out paper dolls.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.