Paper Quotes - Page 29

• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

  Voltaire

  Zero, Historical, Return

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• What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

  Charles A. Dana

  Morality, Lord, Ashamed

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• The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

  Brendan Fraser

  Cutting, Glasses, Giving

  "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Writing, Firsts, Should

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• The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

  Timothy Murphy

  Records, Rooms, Medical

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• I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Suicide, Writing

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• You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Wall, Believe

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

  Larry King

  Smart, Ignorance, Average

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

  Christopher Morley

  Media, Mind, Evening

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

  Lu Xun

  Men, Funeral, Causes

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• In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

  Mary Garden

  Giving Up, Writing, Track

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• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Hero, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Character, White, Drawing

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Michael Steele

  Party, Struggle, Rights

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• That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!

  David Lodge

  Writing, Play, World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.420, Penguin

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• Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Talking, Voice

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• I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

  John McLaughlin

  Growing Up, Growing

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you have to be judicious with it. So it's good, but sometimes people deify it. You can't improvise your way out of a paper hat.

  Steve Coogan

  People, May, Littles

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

  Michel Ocelot

  Moving, Games, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

  Jill Scott

  Book, Library, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Ideas, Magazines, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.

  William Eggleston

  Thinking, Color, Years

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Rain, Sleep

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