Paper Quotes - Page 3

• The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

  Tennessee Williams

  World, Way, Backwards

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Thinking, Design, Lines

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• He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, World, Way

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

  Umberto Eco

  Morning, Reading, Consumers

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

  Peter Stillman

  Writing, Names, Way

  Peter Stillman (1995). “Writing Your Way”, Boynton/Cook

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• I always read the papers, the political bits.

  John Lennon

  Political, Papers, Bits

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Immigration, Genius

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Cinema

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• Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Summer, Fall, Boys

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• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  Wade Davis

  Would Be, Culture, Individual

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• In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

  Joel Dorman Steele

  Nature, People, Use

  Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223

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• I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

  Robin Guthrie

  Men, Thinking, Answers

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• If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

  Ron Silver

  Thinking, Night, Six

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• I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Reading, Book

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Somewhere Else, Finding Yourself

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.134, Random House

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• There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Government, Rubber

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Government, Important

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

  Andrew Jackson

  Receiving, Ruins, Trash

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• do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Satisfaction, Convince

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.464, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Sometimes, when I play music, I feel as if I am giving life. ... It isn't just notes on the paper anymore: you are recreating the thought, transmitting it. It becomes shareable, but it can never be kept. You go through and at the same time you let go of the experience. That is part of the wonder of music: it can never be kept; it is ephemeral and at the same time enduring.

  Hephzibah Menuhin

  Music, Letting Go, Play

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• To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

  Denis Diderot

  Women, Butterfly, Dust

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• Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.

  Sarah Kay

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Character, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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