Sheets Quotes - Page 12

• A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

  Frederick Philip Grove

  Book, Paper, Bundles

  Frederick Philip Grove, Paul Hjartarson (1986). “A stranger to my time: essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove”

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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• Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Wall, Book, Emotional

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.94, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Flames, Mind

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• ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, War, Night

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.226, Random House

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• ... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Hands, Order, Records

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• I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

  Jenny Agutter

  Patience, Doubt, Paper

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• God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

  Martin Luther

  God, Found, Blank

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• You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

  Bill McKibben

  Healthy, Balance, Fuel

  Bill McKibben (2013). “Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist”, p.103, Macmillan

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• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.

  Harrison Ford

  Successful, Giving, Shapes

  "Harrison Ford Talks ENDER’S GAME, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since STAR WARS, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Commitment, Successful

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

  Pierre Cardin

  Fashion, Bed, Soap

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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• You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Paper, Herds, Checklists

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• What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Writing, Sleep, Blue

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• For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin

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• The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

  Judith Schaechter

  Cutting, Glasses, Seductive

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• It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Sleep, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

  James Badge Dale

  Cutting, Half, Window

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• When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

  Marc Andreessen

  College, People, Balance

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• The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

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• Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Home, Covering

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

  Henry R. Luce

  Writing, Editing, Balance

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• They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Change, Bed

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