Quotes About Paper

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

Ida Belle and I hurried up the sidewalk to the sheriff's department, her clutching two tote bags and me a pillow and blanket. Between the state police presence and the closing of the polls at the end of the day, the residents had seen no further reason to stand around in the heat and humidity and had made their way to their homes. The street was littered with paper plates, streamers, election flyers, and soda cans, sprinkled with the occasional illegal beer can.

But all the paper wasn't the best call. Still, there's only so many things to decorate with, and with the fire extinguishers and volunteers on hand, we figured it would be all right." "Technically, it was," I said. "No one died." Gertie laughed. "The advantage of setting the bar really, really low." "I'm not so sure that 'no one died' is a low bar in Sinful," I said.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March.

Pensare disse Caderousse, lasciando cadere la mano sulla carta pensare che qui c'è un modo di uccidere un uomo più sicuramente che se lo si aspettasse all'angolo di un bosco per assassinarlo! Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna , di una boccetta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che di una spada o di una pistola

Why according to tomorrow's paper the proletariat will not rise yesterday.

He unrolled the paper and revealed a message, apparently in cipher: PMION CTRAD INGCA YDWEA LARTO IROAR RORSS EWERC EAAIR AKCCR EOVER BASES.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.