Paper Quotes

• Shake accepted a yellowed slip of paper and unfolded it. It was a page torn from a copy of Julius Caesar. Minh had underlined a passage and written a rough Vietnamese translation in the margin. “`Cry `Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.' Yes. It’s what I was thinking. It’s what happened on the Long Mountain March, isn’t it?” “Yes...” “It wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last. Do you remember My Lai, Minh?” “I remember what we heard. Quang Ngai Province. Civilians were executed by American soldiers.

  

  Dale Dye
  • Shake
  • Slip
  • Unfolded

• With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • World
  • Paper
  • Pencil

• I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Process
  • Favorite
  • Phases

• Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Believe
  • Power
  • East

• You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

  

  Paul Lauterbur
  • Writing
  • Term
  • Lasts

• When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Picture
  • Piece
  • Conversion

• I'm not a guy who's in the paper a lot, so I didn't really know about it until a couple of players came up to me

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Guy
  • Players
  • Paper

• This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Written
  • Paper
  • Terribly

• A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Feels
  • Screen
  • Pen

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

  

  Charles A. Dana
  • Happens
  • Ashamed
  • Print

• I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Remember
  • Paper
  • Quotes

• Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Time
  • Words
  • Write

• The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Education
  • Lines
  • Brainwashing

• A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Die
  • Waiting

• You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Skins
  • Philosophers
  • Unfortunate

• I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • Reading
  • Paper
  • Papers

• Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Motivational

• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Body
  • Certain
  • Able

• I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Paper
  • Notes
  • Thank

• “Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler’s face.”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • Face
  • Hitler
  • Pig

• An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

  

  Nathan Rabin
  • Records
  • Letters
  • Newspapers

• Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

  

  George Polya
  • Mathematics
  • Paper
  • Pencil

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