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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• 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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• 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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• I always read the papers, the political bits.

  John Lennon

  Political, Papers, Bits

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Wall, Used

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1959). “Miss Pinkerton”

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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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• all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Baseball, Father, Team

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• 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

  Country, Wings, Ideas

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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• Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Meals, Breakfast, Newspapers

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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