Paper Quotes
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You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
Gary Myers -
Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
Sanya Richards-Ross
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I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
Scott McClellan -
To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.
Steve Carlton -
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.
Wole Soyinka -
I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
Warren MacKenzie -
No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
Ezra Pound -
I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.
Rick Smolan
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My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
Damon Albarn Blur -
I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.
John Prine -
I have never supported white supremacism but I read this this description of me in the papers.
David Duke -
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury -
What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
Charles A. Dana -
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.
Eve Merriam
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Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?
Sherman Alexie -
All of us conceal in conversation clues to personality which we happily reveal on paper, because the added distance of writing lends protection and encourages the risks of intimacy.
Brian Masters -
In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
Molly Ivins -
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
William Zinsser -
Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
Paul Lynde -
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
Morris Kline
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
Richard Feynman -
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
Svetlana Alexievich -
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Richard Steele -
Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.
Stephen Covey