Quotes About Paper

spring rustling in the air, like a paper bag blowing along a concrete sidewalk.

A igual blancura, la de un papel de Occidente difiere por naturaleza de la de un hosho7 o un papel blanco de China. Los rayos luminosos parecen rebotar en la superficie del papel occidental, mientras que la del hosho o del papel de China, similar a la aterciopelada superficie de la primera nieve, los absorbe con suavidad. Además, nuestros papeles, agradables al tacto, se pliegan y arrugan sin ruido. Su contacto es suave y ligeramente húmedo como el de la hoja de un árbol.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They've already done it. It's called a nickel.

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.