Paper Quotes - Page 5

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

The world is full of paper, write to me

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.