Paper Quotes
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What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
Charles A. Dana
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The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will.
Lewis H. Lapham
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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.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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I’m very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago – now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.
William Michael Griffin Jr.
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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Tim Gane
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The paper on Iran is a paper of reflection. As you know the situation of Iran today is in the Security Council. It has been a statement by the Presidency of Council last month.
Javier Solana
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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.
Flannery O'Connor
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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
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The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.
Seth Godin
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I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
Petra Nemcova
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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
H. G. Wells
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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
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Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Tahereh Mafi
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding
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You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.
Jack Roy
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I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.
Daws Butler
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I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
Bruno Tonioli
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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.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.
Ryan Adams