Paper Pushing Quotes

#1. We finally got around to processing the Queen's request to reinstate your bel dame status," Fatima said.
"What, twelve years later?"
"Bel dames are not known for the efficiency of their paper pushing.

Kameron Hurley

#2. One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small, And the ones that Mother gives you Don't do anything at all, Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.

Anonymous

#3. When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Howard Dean

#4. I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

Naomi Novik

#5. You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

David Strathairn

#6. I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

Terrence Real

#8. There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

#9. Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#10. Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

Vernon Howard

#11. If we all raised others up instead of raising ourselves a little higher, there would be few needs left on earth.

Jen Hatmaker

#12. People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

Tamara Mellon

#13. I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

David Sedaris

#14. People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

Ricky Williams

#15. He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

S.A. Tawks

#17. In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

#18. The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors.

Azar Nafisi

#19. Sometime it seems like the real miracle of life if that a man and woman were able to get along well enough to make a baby in the first place.

Tanya Michaels

#20. Then forgive yourself!" she shouted, pushing herself back up. She pressed her palm against the wall for support. "Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it. Don't you understand? Lira's exploited hers, but not you. Not you, Emery Thane.

Charlie N. Holmberg