Sheets Quotes - Page 22

• I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

  Carol Friedman

  Cameras, Stubborn, Assistants

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• We all get attached to frayed towels, mismatched sheets and shapeless pillows, associating them with years of comfort, but they have ceased to be functional! As for the plethora of hotel freebies, gather them in a basket to be offered as a hospitality service to your overnight guests. They'll be pleased by your thoughtfulness-and amazed that you're so organized.

  Julie Morgenstern

  Years, Comfort, Guests

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• In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Agreement, Balance, Letters

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• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  Gene Fowler

  Inspirational, Writing, Blood

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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• Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sleep, Sunshine, Doctors

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

  Steve Cotterill

  Football, Tonight, Clean

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• Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Fall, Balance

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• The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

  David Hewson

  Long, My Own

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• You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Laughter, Memories, Home

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• I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Names, People

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.171, Penguin

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• If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Political, Intellectual

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

  Nhat Hanh

  Clouds, Oneness, Floating

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• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

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• Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Men, Deeds

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

  Grace Hopper

  Balance, Information, Process

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• Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Expression, Dimensions

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Trying, Paper

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.127, UPNE

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

  Simone Weil

  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Dirty, Sleep

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• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

  John Muir

  Nature, Wind, Rivers

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• The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

  Matthew Lillard

  Numbers, Lines, Fantastic

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

  Selima Hill

  Real, Insecurity, Paper

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• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Writing, Simple, Typewriters

  "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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• I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.

  Jen Kirkman

  Ideas, Two, People

  Jen Kirkman (2014). “I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wind, Long, Drunk

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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