Sheets Quotes - Page 23

• Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

  Diane Lane

  Reality, Different, Television

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• Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Fall, Balance

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• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Awards, Matter

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

  Nhat Hanh

  Clouds, Oneness, Floating

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• Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

  James Russell Lowell

  Writing, Night, Two

  James Russell Lowell, “For An Autograph”

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Men, Deeds

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sleep, Sunshine, Doctors

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

  Simone Weil

  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Trying, Paper

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.127, UPNE

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• Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Expression, Dimensions

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

  Grace Hopper

  Balance, Information, Process

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• I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Ink, Bottles, Paper

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo: World Classics”, p.35, World Classic

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• The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Beautiful, Simple, Bed

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Gambling, Years

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Writing, Winning

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• Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Lying, Looks

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Stars, Patriotic

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• A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Taken, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

  Rupert Brooke

  Sleep, Kissing, Bed

  New Numbers no. 3 (1914) "The Great Lover"

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• Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

  Reid Hoffman

  Focus, Sailing, Growth

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Dream, Believe

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

  Roger Daltrey

  Band, Sticks, Would Be

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• I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

  Woody Harrelson

  Swimming, Clothes, Trying

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