Paper Quotes

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (Samuel Goldwyn)
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. View quote
Billy Wilder
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. View quote
John Updike
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. View quote
Steve Martin
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. (Robert Anton Wilson)
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. View quote
Henry Rollins
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? View quote
Abraham Pais
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. View quote
Amelia Earhart
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. View quote
William Wordsworth
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. View quote
Pearl Bailey
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. View quote
Jean Cocteau
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. (Christopher Morley)
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. View quote
Julien Green
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. View quote
Niall Horan
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. View quote
Horace Mann
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