Paper Quotes - Page 27

• Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Steel

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• I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

  Tom Monaghan

  Oil, Way, Sometimes

  Tom Monaghan, Robert Anderson (1986). “Pizza tiger”, Random House Inc

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• Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

  Caryl Churchill

  White, Carols, Joyce

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• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  Zig Ziglar

  Way, Sides, Knows

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• In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

  Sylvia Porter

  Good Enough, Opposition, Enough

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• I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

  Bill Nighy

  Thinking, Phones, Careers

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• In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Views, Issues

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• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Chinese, Taught

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.

  Thomas Tull

  Art, Kids, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Mean, Yeast, Gluten

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

  Geoff Capes

  Broken, Details, Computer

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Ideas, Helping

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• Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

  Jack Kornfield

  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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• I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.

  Eric Stoltz

  Jobs, Writing, Pay

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• For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.

  Don Aslett

  Water, Office, Frustrated

  Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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• Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

  Emily Saliers

  Study, Grammar, Pencils

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

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• I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Years, Toilets, Toothpaste

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• If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Numbers, Doubt, Dozen

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• If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

  Charlie Munger

  Pieces, Littles, Buying

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• I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Writing, Ideas

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.194, Grove Press

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• The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

  Josh Billings

  Morning, Dew, Grass

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• You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Taken, Thinking, Civilization

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Judas Unchained”, p.906, Pan Macmillan

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