Butcher Paper Quotes

#1. The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#2. When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

Simon Van Booy

#3. My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Jay Baruchel

#4. Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.

Jim Butcher

#5. Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

Nelson Algren

#6. Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

Kevin Hood

#8. I can disintegrate a virgin's inhibitions at fifty paces, but I can't last two weeks at a job where I'm wearing a stupid hairnet and a paper hat.

Jim Butcher

#9. The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

Vilfredo Pareto

#10. That's my second rule of life," Dan said. "There's always a guy named Joe.

Jude Watson

#11. It's been a long time since I let a man boss me around. I kind of miss it.

Tiffany Reisz

#12. It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Neil Postman

#13. Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.

A.P.

#14. At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

Jim Butcher

#15. I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.

Pattie Boyd

#16. I am what I am because of who we all are.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Mark Twain

#18. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

Nikola Tesla

#21. Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

An Na