Top 100 The Paper Quotes
#1. The trick to taking the paper off the crayons ... is to just do it. There is no trick.
Dan Bergstein
#2. It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
Stephane Mallarme
#3. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#4. It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
Taylor Phinney
#5. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision
the precious rays of light shining from the throne.
Ellen G. White
#6. You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.
Linda Sue Park
#7. Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Gail Sheehy
#8. Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.
Maria Sharapova
#9. Yesterday was to me like the paper through which chemists filter their solutions: all suspended particles, all that is superfluous remains on this paper. And this morning I went downstairs freshly distilled, transparent.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#10. He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any sign of wear was the dust jacket at the top and bottom of the spine. Little tears or cracks in the paper appeared here if a book had been taken off a shelf as much as three or four times.
Leonard Holton
#11. You can't stay in the library all day!" I hiss, sitting next to him.
"This is a school. Studying is encouraged."
"What exactly are you studying?"
He folds the paper and gives me his cat grin. "History students.
Kiersten White
#12. I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
Melissa Lee-Houghton
#13. Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#14. To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
#15. Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance.
Elizabeth Hunter
#16. When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
Akhil Sharma
#17. Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
Pablo Picasso
#18. A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.
Lewis Buzbee
#19. Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
Gilbert Gottfried
#20. She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air on her face and breathing in the smell of the paper.
Sage Steadman
#21. If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.
Nicholas Sparks
#22. Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
Howard Nemerov
#23. please." When he smiled, deep dimples formed in his cheeks. She took the paper and frowned down at it.
Kristin Hannah
#24. that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge.
Virginia Woolf
#26. I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.
Pete Seeger
#27. It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.
Andres Segovia
#28. list of yours," he said with a smile. "That's private." I was seriously annoyed now. "Absolutely not - no deal," I said, walking away. Max reached out and snatched the paper towel from my hand. When I felt it go, I gasped. "Max!" I screamed and backed
Lillianna Blake
#29. It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.
Jay Leno
#30. he would be left alone to scan the arts section of the paper, and read about other people who were doing the kinds of things he didn't even have the expansiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of,
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
Drake
#32. It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#33. His fingers, frozen in midfidget on his good knee, said
PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ASK ME THAT.
Either that or
I HAVE JUST BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE PAPER SCREEN.
He wasn't bleeding.
Jennifer Echols
#34. You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
Gary Myers
#35. Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
Olga Kurylenko
#36. What the pen was doing for Rohit right now, the paper
mobile phone did for Prabhu.
Pankaj Suneja
#37. I wanted to write some words you'd remember.
Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.
C.L. Foster
#38. Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips
from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#39. I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.
Blake Mycoskie
#40. The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
Jules Renard
#41. Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
Colin Hanks
#42. Dad." He flicked a glance toward her, but his eyes returned to the paper. "I know Drew's kind of an idiot, and I know better than to put any trust in him yet.
Lauren Gilley
#43. I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.
Jon McGregor
#44. Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.
Jim Cramer
#45. I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
Ben Katchor
#46. Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.
Brice Marden
#47. Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
Nita Engle
#48. I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
Pink
#49. The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.
Richard Artschwager
#51. Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul
Ace Antonio Hall
#52. Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.
Michel Templet
#53. It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.
Lauren DeStefano
#55. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]
Terry Pratchett
#56. You can flatten the paper and try and make it as straight as you want, but it will never be perfect again.
Auliq Ice
#57. I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
J. Cole
#58. About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
Max Walker
#59. If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston
#60. When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something I never forgot, that I think of every time I see your face on the news or in the paper- That man was once someone's little boy.
Blake Crouch
#61. The blue sky adds Dont call me eternity, call me God if you like, sll of you talkers are in paradise: the leaf is paradise, the tree stump is paradise, the paper bag is paradise, the man is paradise, the sand is paradise, the sea is paradise, the man is paradise, the fog is paradise
Jack Kerouac
#62. Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.
Wayne Dyer
#63. Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.
Roger Ebert
#66. Write (this includes any thoughts I don't want to have - write them out fast so they're out of me and on the paper).
Jennifer Niven
#67. The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from the open book of his heart.
Diana Gabaldon
#68. In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.
John Burroughs
#69. I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone's hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam of sweat, me, half a block away, and think, you don't know self-fragmentation until it's staring you in the face.
Chris Campanioni
#70. He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
Shimon Peres
#71. If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
John Updike
#72. It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."
Bill Watterson
#73. Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.
Jane Austen
#74. Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
Emily Saliers
#75. If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.
Michael J. Fox
#76. I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#77. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.
Ken Follett
#78. Grandma Mazur reads the obituary columns like they're part of the paper's entertainment section. Other communities have country clubs and fraternal orders. The Burg has funeral parlors. If people stopped dying, the social life of the Burg would come to a grinding halt.
Janet Evanovich
#79. The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
Robert Lipsyte
#80. Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.
Raneem Kayyali
#81. She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.
Neil Gaiman
#82. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.
Kim Harrison
#83. I did not agree..to having my article censored ... The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read ... Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.
John Yudkin
#84. After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. //
Pictures? No, they lie. You're not the picture. My dear, you're not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You're not these trunks of junk and dust. You're only you, here, now - the present you.
Ray Bradbury
#85. The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer
#86. It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.
Mark Frost
#87. The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.
Gabriel Ba
#88. Decisions are the privilege we've been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.
Andy Murray
#90. It by heart. And then one of the subtler messages on the paper got through to him. It was in the letterhead, which displayed
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
Alonso Duralde
#92. If you were green tea, I'd be your tea cup. If you were dark chocolate, I'd be the paper that wraps you up. If you were a train, I'd be your tracks
If you were a brain, I'd be the heart attached.
Coco J. Ginger
#93. I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver
#94. Three coffees, two with milk, please," said Francis to the fat woman behind the counter. "No milk, just Cremora." "Well, then, just black, I guess." He turned to us. "Have you seen the paper this morning?
Donna Tartt
#95. Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.
Dean Koontz
#96. Are you really reading that, or are you just trying to show off?" I asked, lowering myself into the seat.
He looked over the paper, opened his mouth, and a torrent of foreign words flew out.
"Okay, sorry, just asking. Wait, how many of those were curse words?
Myra McEntire
#97. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.
Terry Pratchett
#98. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full
Tina J. Richardson
#99. My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
Ajay Naidu
#100. Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Russell Pearce
