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Quotes About Papers

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
~ Rusty Schweickart
The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.
~ Paul Theroux
Dropping me back at San Dario Avenue, which was the road to the international bridge, he said, "You should leave." "Thanks." But it was not easy. The entire walkway on the bridge was filled with people, all of them Mexican, obviously with visas or papers, headed toward the door with the sign US IMMIGRATION—not shuffling toward the door, not moving, but just waiting
~ Paul Theroux
We discuss calling the police. We have to quickly review anything that could go wrong if we do. Are our immigration papers in order? They are. Do we have outstanding parking tickets? I have three, Achor Achor two. We calculate whether or not we have enough in checking accounts to pay the tickets if the police demand it. We decide that we do.
~ Dave Eggers
I had my papers in for detective before I left. I've got my forensics certifications. I notice stuff. I sweat the details. And this is my town," she added. "I know everybody here. And I mean everybody, because there aren't that many of us.
~ David Baldacci
The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy.
~ Herta Muller
He glances up again, and recognizes Gregory's design. It is a system of holy simplicity: big papers on the bottom, small ones on top.
~ Hilary Mantel
brutally, like men who think they have to deal with a swindler or a madman — it depends on their nature. I have been buried under the dead; but now I am buried under the living, under papers, under facts, under the whole of society, which wants to shove me underground again!
~ Honore de Balzac
I got Jackie into the suite without any outbursts of Kantian Dialectic, and as we settled into our chairs on the balcony and waited for mojitos, Kathy knocked on the door, bustling past me with a haughty glare when I let her in, and heading straight out to Jackie, her hands full of papers and her eternal phone and Starbucks cup.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Once again, as seemed to be the case so often in my life, my stomach finally settled things; it growled, reminding me that life goes on, and even more so with a good dinner. And so, rather than risking the wrath of my digestive system, which was much more relevant than the wrath of my nonsister, I straightened up, clutched the custody papers firmly in my left hand, and moseyed up to the door.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The blow to the head, the drugs, being trapped underground? Jasper Coyle knew exactly what was happening to him. He read the papers, he watched the news.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly
~ Michelle Obama
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
~ H. L. Mencken
Big Anya bag - perfect for stuffing papers in for the plane; Ray Bans - in any shape, I'm hooked!
~ Poppy Delevingne
I spent a lot of time researching dementia, read papers on the subject, and also found a lot of dementia diaries on the Internet which were a great help in getting an insight into the disease.
~ Emma Healey
The papers of Jerry Fairbanks Studios lie uncatalogued in the basement of the UCLA research library.
~ Unknown
In the deepest nights words left behind or asleep may find their connections. In scattered papers, who knows or forgets them? Someday perhaps they'll resonate—who knows?— in a few sympathetic hearts.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.
~ Antoni Zygmund
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
~ Carroll O'Connor
There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.
~ Peter Ackroyd
I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they were. But once I did, I went all over the place, picking them up. I don't know what to do with them. I mean, they're meaningless now, but they still exist. You can't throw out something like that. You can't make them gone like that.
~ David Levithan
It's not that I don't have opinions about these things. I just don't feel they're in any way special. Sure, I follow the news. I read the papers and listen to the radio, but I'm not privy to any inside information. When it comes to politics, all I can offer is emotion. My perspective might be slightly different, but so is anyone's when they live overseas.
~ David Sedaris
I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.
~ Iker Casillas
Hovering somewhere between seventy and eighty years old, the Chair nestled in an office feathered with the books, papers, notes, and tchotchkes accumulated over a lifetime career devoted to the study of the Orient. He had hung an elaborate Oriental rug on his wall, in lieu, I suppose, of an actual Oriental.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen