Papered Quotes

#1. There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

Joan Didion

#2. Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

Sidney Lanier

#3. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Nava Atlas

#4. Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.

James Chanos

#6. When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Ron Chernow

#7. What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.

Herman Melville

#8. toilet-papered your house!

Rachel Renee Russell

#9. I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

Jack O'Brien

#10. I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was ... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

Alan Arkin

#11. Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy's cheek. "Unless someone's bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You'll want to strap into the jump seats.

"This could get interesting, and that's before we get clear of the station.

G.S. Jennsen

#12. I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

Roone Arledge

#13. I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

Adam Rickitt

#14. It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

Ralph Charell

#15. Raskolnikov once said: When reason fails, the devil helps!

Markus Zusak

#16. [Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.] This one would be for Lotto. "This will be fun," she said aloud to the empty house.

Lauren Groff

#17. Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.

Ashwin Sanghi

#18. Jameson, the teacher who ran drama club, would call her name any minute to audition for the lead role! That

Callie Barkley

#19. Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

Peter Matthiessen

#20. Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Brian Epstein