Paper Quotes

• 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 obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Yeah

• 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

• 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

• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Accepting
  • Refuse
  • Buddha

• Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Beauty
  • Pieces
  • Finished

• 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

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

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • Reading
  • Paper
  • Papers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Intention

• Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Always
  • Paper
  • Listens

• I think some students will be pleased with this because they're against all the paper we waste at college. The financial aspect is very attractive.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • College
  • Financial
  • Students

• The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Work
  • Horse
  • Office

• So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Mean
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• 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

• Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

  

  Grant Hart Hüsker Dü
  • Paper
  • Document
  • Handy

• 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

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

  

  Charles A. Dana
  • Happens
  • Ashamed
  • Print

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

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Time
  • Words
  • Write

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

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Written
  • Paper
  • Terribly

• The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • Paper
  • Filmmaker
  • Toilets

• The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

  

  H. J Eckenrode
  • Popular
  • Argument
  • Atheism

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