Quotes About Paper

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

Like most of Italy, Neapolitans like their food, and there are restaurants everywhere. But to make like a true Neapolitan, grab a pizza from a street vendor and eat it there and then. We tried a pizza that's folded over four times to make it nice and portable, then you eat it straight out of paper, like fish and chips.

I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.

Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.

Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

I found that joy can be acquired like a habit, in the same way as a folded sheet of paper falls naturally into the same fold.

Most do," she agreed. "Me? My principles are about love and doing it because there's meaning and commitment. A piece of paper doesn't always signal that. If there's any sin involved, it's doing it in a . . . I don't know. Cheap way. With people you don't care about. When it's meaningless.

It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself—from Mr. Wonka.

Un libro cruje cuando lo abres, como una galleta, y los negros regueros de tinta, sobre el frágil papel, despiden un olor sutil y sabroso, semejante al de ciertas frutas livianas.

I point out these details because we are tactile creatures. Fabric, leather, graphics, paint, paper—these substances and surfaces we surround ourselves with powerfully affect us.

That was why I resolved to write my first drafts in longhand, slowest of the various means of committing thoughts to paper, before I started doing later drafts on the typewriter; that is why I still do my first few drafts in longhand today;

She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.

Each copy is guaranteed—or double your money back—to be printed on genuine paper of enough pages to hold the covers apart.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

Kulihat peri kecil muram Di keteduhan pohon kertas. Kumengenal peri kecil muram Yang tertiup angin suatu malam.

J'ai trouvé une triste petite fée A l'ombre d'un arbre en papier Je connais une triste petite fée Que le vent un jour a soufflée.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He

J'utiliserai un pétale pour papier Et t'écrirai les mots les plus doux Tu es le sultan de mon coeur Le sultan de mon coeur.