Paperclip Quotes

#1. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. If I ever get reincarnated, let me make certain I don't come back as a paperclip.

Haruki Murakami

#3. She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.

Lois Lowry

#4. Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant
at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.

Kresley Cole

#5. The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.

Philip Kerr

#6. So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvres.

Wislawa Szymborska

#7. Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Babe Ruth

#8. I still have my talent to produce and direct.

Marc Wallice

#9. I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

Billy Crystal

#10. There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.

Jimmy Wayne

#11. I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

#12. When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player ... and just instantly make out with each other.

Charlie Puth

#13. The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. He had chosen a hard life ... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

George R R Martin

#15. I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

Vincent Kartheiser

#16. Don't just be a deliverer of yourself, but a deliverer of your whole nation

Sunday Adelaja

#17. In fact, the people who live in this town exist - millions of them. They just don't happen to all live in the same town.

David Levithan

#18. Climbed up on the rainbow
Just to see if I'd fall off

Tegan Quin

#19. If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight.

Annabel Pitcher