Quotes About Paper

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Stocks or other paper assets were inconsequential, since they cost us money and never put any money in our pockets.

By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important

In fact, when the Egyptians would not export papyrus, parchment (made from treated animal skins) was invented in Pergamum. The word parchment derives from the Latin "Pergamena charta," or "paper of Pergamum.

America's abandonment of the gold standard would have shocked the founders, who took for granted that money had to be more than mere paper. More than anything, going off gold (which occurred in stages, culminating under Nixon) expanded the Fed's charter. It made the agency the supreme arbiter

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes. Sam held out his hand. Give me some tobacco and a paper. He accepted the package, rolled himself a cigarette. Light? ...Thanks.

Goldman, Sachs specialized in commercial paper, Lehman in commodity trading.

For legal reasons, everyone was cautioned not to exchange thoughts on paper.)

There was nothing in his pockets except paper money and an expired passport and an ATM card and a clip-together toothbrush.

I like paper better than video.

Many a night I woke to the murmur of paper and knew he was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James—oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man. —Galileo1

You see, Mr. Phillips, the truth of it is, I am so very American." She slapped the pen down on the onerous paper and slid them both toward her boss. "And that is precisely why I can't—no, why I refuse to sign this.

You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader's hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words.

Kad ?ovek pomisli - re?e Kadrus obaraju?i ruku na hartiju - da se pomo?u ovoga može ubiti ?ovek sigurnije nego kada bi ga neko ?ekao u zasedi u šumi da ga ubije! Ja sam se uvek bojao pera, boce mastila i lista hartije više nego ma?a ili pištolja.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.