Paper Clips Quotes

• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Paper, Clip

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• Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Media, Paper

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

  Al Yankovic

  Work, Animal, Paper

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• You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

  Lisa Randall

  Paper, Earth, Might

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• At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

  Jim Butcher

  Mad, Nails, Paper

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin Group

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• I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Tired, Together, Paper

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• I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

  Jandy Nelson

  Talking, Use, Paper

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.12, Penguin

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• I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.

  Emo Philips

  Government, Differences, Irs

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• The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

  Emo Philips

  Differences, Irs, Paper

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• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets.

  Louis Menand

  Style, Trying, Ark

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• He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they’d find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.

  Julie James

  Men, Knowing, Rumor

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.131, Penguin

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• I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

  J. D. Salinger

  Football, Hate, Fall

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Coffee, Rap

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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