Top 100 Quotes About Paper
#1. Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
Richard Paul Evans
#2. I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
Jami Attenberg
#3. - and the mocking realization that money was just colorful crumpled paper, hardly different from a candy wrapper, the market itself little more than a casino.
Paul Theroux
#4. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
John Green
#5. History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
Ridley Scott
#6. The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.
Kamal Ravikant
#7. If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!
C. JoyBell C.
#8. It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.
Gunter Grass
#9. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
#10. Don't misuse the pencil and don't torment the paper.
Uri Shulevitz
#11. I think one of the big questions for many [Bernie] Sanders supporters is, are [Hillary Clinton's] words and what's written in paper going to actually come to pass when she is elected president? That's, I think, the greatest worry for many Sanders supporters.
Jonathan Tasini
#12. Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#13. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John Green
#14. Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
Valentino Garavani
#15. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.
Donald Miller
#16. There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments - moments of sustained creation - when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
E.B. White
#17. At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson
#18. He withdrew a cylinder of paper from inside his jacket's cuff and unrolled it so I could see the beautiful winding letters. The golden ink looked wet,
A.G. Howard
#19. How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.
Margaret Atwood
#20. She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.
Cynthia Hand
#21. A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead.
Stephen King
#22. I quickly scrawled my number and Colt across the paper and placed it in her palm. She looked down at my number and smiled.
"Colt. Like a horse?"
"Like the gun, sweetheart." I winked and her face brightened with a nervous smile.
Teresa Mummert
#23. The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Julius Charles Hare
#24. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord Acton
#25. My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
Anton Du Beke
#26. The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.
Gavriel Savit
#28. The Echo was a rag specializing in yard sales, area sports, and town politics. The residents scanned those things, he supposed, but mostly bought the paper for the obituaries and Police Beat. Everybody liked to know which of their neighbors had died or been jailed.
Stephen King
#29. A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
Nicholson Baker
#30. As the liquid paper's fumes quell his brain activity, Jack finds himself staring at
her again and what he thinks is this: Wow.
Joe Meno
#31. My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
Corey Dillon
#32. Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass
#33. Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
Dave Barry
#34. What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
John Marsden
#35. There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.
Steve Coogan
#36. I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.
Michael Leunig
#37. I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Robert Wyatt
#38. Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
R.D. Laing
#39. After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
Rex Brandt
#40. I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.
Eric Kandel
#41. So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
Chris Martin
#42. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#43. A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.
Morris Kline
#44. The woman had followed every single move of the Prince's fingers on her hand and felt very fine when the guy put them on the paper. What she felt was unknown to her, a whole new sensation.
And dangerous.
It was desire. She wanted Galadir, but in a horrible and disgusting way.
Chiara Cilli
#46. I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
Robert Cormier
#47. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.
Sarah Dessen
#48. I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
David Cross
#49. The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
Bob Monkhouse
#50. He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.
John C. Calhoun
#51. I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?
Taylor Swift
#52. On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)
Scott Spencer
#53. My response is being written with ink and paper in the glorious tradition of our ancestors and then transcribed by Ms. Vliegenthart into a series of 1s and 0s to travel through the insipid web which has lately ensnared our species, so I apologize for any errors or omissions that may result. "'Given
John Green
#54. He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.
Arthur Slade
#55. Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
Warren Buffett
#56. I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin
#57. I had one elegantly folded cookie - a short paper nerve baked in an ear.
Lorrie Moore
#59. After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#60. What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
Edoardo Ponti
#61. You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.
Joe Abercrombie
#62. Drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper.
Ray Charles
#63. Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Jacques Barzun
#64. Amazed how I get so much paper? I'm more amazed how you could be such a hater!
Wiz Khalifa
#65. When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Lesley Gore
#66. It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Harold Macmillan
#67. In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
Michael Crichton
#68. Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.
Terry Tempest Williams
#69. And this must be our little Flavia!'
On paper the man was already dead.
Alan Bradley
#70. It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.
Woody Harrelson
#71. The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff
#73. Her face was as red as her hair. "What are you doing," she cried.
Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. "Editing your paper." What did it look like he was doing?
"You're just cutting out stuff!"
"What do you think editing is?
M.M. John
#74. If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
Terry Brooks
#75. I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger
#76. The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
Mini Grey
#77. Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.
Robert Dallek
#79. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
#80. I watch, nearly shaking with the need to say something and having nothing to say, as she lets a flame incinerate the precious paper to a dusting of ash on the floor.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#82. I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.
Michael Moorcock
#83. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#84. The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
Yehuda Amichai
#85. Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
Mason Cooley
#86. I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.
Don Henley
#87. An idea on paper to a reality in large part.
Tom Ridge
#88. Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
John Dos Passos
#89. I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Karl Lagerfeld
#90. I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.
Julie Anne Peters
#91. When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
Barry Lopez
#92. Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill.
It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.
Kate Avelynn
#93. Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.
Rob Manuel
#94. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#95. I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.
Holly Black
#96. All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.
Diane Moore
#97. Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company.
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#99. At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov
#100. As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
Athol Fugard
