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Quotes About Papers

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
~ Will Rogers
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.
~ Dale Jamieson
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
~ H. G. Wells
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
~ Giorgio Moroder
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.
~ Joel Dorman Steele
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
~ Barry Goldwater
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
Had I been given The [Pentagon] Papers themselves that early, I would probably have become a prisoner of them—as it was, I had a good sense of the bureaucratic history [in them] as related by an expert, but I was also free to do several hundred interviews, not merely to flesh out the bureaucratic history, but to balance the pure paper history with a human history, and to relate secret decisions as they were not always set down on paper.
~ David Halberstam
That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.
~ David Hume
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.
~ Max Lucado
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
~ Peter McWilliams
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
~ Michael Chabon
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
~ Euginia Herlihy
Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.
~ Jason Fry
Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
~ Edith Wharton
Still, real information continued to drip out – often tucked away in scientific papers that went unnoticed, such as when a German research institute reported in mid-April that lockdowns had been broadly useless. Yet – more than two months after they began – the lockdowns continue. Only Alaska has gone
~ Alex Berenson
Had it not been for the emergence of OTT platforms, Kaafir' would still be a story on papers.
~ Mohit Raina
I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.
~ Regis Philbin
I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.
~ Regis Philbin
Toward the end of the plague, yellow journalism had spread a cancerous dread of vampires to all corners of the nation. He could remember himself the rash of pseudo-scientific articles that veiled an out-and-out fright campaign designed to sell papers. There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died. Not that all newspapers had done that. Those papers that had lived in honesty and integrity died the same way.
~ Richard Matheson
Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver
~ Richard Preston
In Berlin his son-in-law arranged to have his furniture packed. The French obligingly transported his personal papers to Paris by diplomatic pouch. At the end of March 1933 the most original physicist of the twentieth century once again renounced his German citizenship.
~ Richard Rhodes
I hear you don't write any more, he says... Not true, I inform him. You should see the margins of my student papers. Not the same as writing a book though, right? Almost identical, I assure him. Both go largely unread.
~ Richard Russo