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Quotes About Paper

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
~ Dodie Smith
Now, paper and pencils, said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman.
~ Dodie Smith
I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever.
~ Dodie Smith
ByÅ'o to fascynujÄ…ce, szczególnie sklepy z artykuÅ'ami papierniczymi - na nie mogÅ'abym patrze? bez koÅ"ca. Rose twierdzi, ?e to najnudniejsze sklepy na Å›wiecie, poza, by? mo?e, rze?nikiem. (Nie rozumiem, jak mo?na nazwa? sklepy rze?nicze nudnymi; sÄ… zbyt peÅ'ne okrucieÅ"stwa).
~ Dodie Smith
Vokspapiret ble skilt fra rullen i et rat-a-tat-forløp, krøp langs den hakkete kanten på esken, og hun hørte det nedover ryggraden, tenkte hun.
~ Don DeLillo
Yet surprisingly in this era of screen-based devices, paper tools are still enormously popular and effective, as the number of paper-based diaries and reminders indicates. The
~ Donald A. Norman
The thing about writing a story, in real life and on paper, is half the effort is just figuring out what the story is going to be.
~ Donald Miller
Let no reader think for a moment that this is going to be a political paper. I am no politician: I have no politics but those of the Bible. The only party I care for is the Lord's side: show me where that is, and it shall have my support. The only election I am very anxious about is the election of grace.
~ J.C. Ryle
By nature we are creatures of hope, always ready to be deceived again, caught by the marvel that might be wrapped in the grubbiest brown paper parcel.
~ Unknown
He turned to pull the door closed and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again. As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying, scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him.
~ Jack Finney
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
~ Jack Herer
The standard fiber of world history, America's traditional crop, hemp, could provide our textiles and paper and be the premier source for cellulose. The war industries—DuPont, Allied Chemical, Monsanto, etc.,—are protected from competition by the marijuana laws. They make war on the natural cycle and the common farmer.
~ Jack Herer
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.
~ Jacob M. Appel
I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.
~ Lydia Davis
In 1931 Mabel bought a carton of Roberts Brothers archives, which had been thrown out as waste paper for the mills but salvaged by a book hunter. The carton contained the whole of the Dickinson publishing papers, including the draft and final contracts in 1894.
~ Lyndall Gordon
The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her.
~ M.J. Rose
The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?
~ John Grisham
Dear God!" the cook cried. "Soon all the wood on Twisted River will be pulpwood—for paper! What about toboggans is worse than paper?" "Books are made from paper!" Ketchum declared. "What role do toboggans play in your son's education?
~ John Irving
If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
~ John Lloyd
In 2013, the Venezuelan government accused the opposition of hoarding toilet paper and causing a national shortage.
~ John Lloyd
The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?
~ Edward Tufte
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
~ Eric Temple Bell
Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Life is like paper. Don't make it heavy by drowning it into water of sorrow and pain. Instead make it lighter by letting it blow in the wind of joy and happiness.
~ Unknown