Paper Quotes
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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.
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I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.
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With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
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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.
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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.
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You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
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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
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The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.
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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.
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What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
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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.
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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
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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.
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
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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.
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I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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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.
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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.
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“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.”
