Paper Quotes - Page 31

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

I never worked on the school newspaper.

Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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!

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.