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Quotes About Paper

Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste.
~ Homaro Cantu
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.
~ Ali Larter
The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.
~ Tom Walker
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
~ Randy West
I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.
~ Mamie Van Doren
My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.
~ Louis MacNeice
How do we know that?" Lucy was frowning. "By inference. She did not attach a piece of paper to a blanket with a bare pin and wrap the blanket around the baby.
~ Rex Stout
Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.
~ Richard Curtis
How is Redbreast's Dad like a piece of toilet paper? He circles Uranus, looking for Klingons.
~ Richard Powers
They discussed the long, thorough theoretical paper by Niels Bohr and John Wheeler, "The mechanism of nuclear fission," that had been published in the September Physical Review and especially its conclusion, which Bohr and Wheeler had elaborated from Bohr's Sunday-morning graph work, that U235 was probably the isotope of uranium responsible for slow-neutron fission.1205
~ Richard Rhodes
Make ready for the Christ, whose smile like lightning, sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps—in your paper flesh. Thomas Merton
~ Richard Rohr
Then she clutched the paper to her heart and started laughing.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Tyson- Cash? Like...green paper? Percy- Yeah. Tyson- Like the kind in duffel bags? Percy-Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--. Tyson! How did you-- Tyson- Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.
~ Rick Riordan
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper.
~ Rick Riordan
Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.
~ Rick Riordan
Leo unfurled the little strip of paper. It read: THAT'S YOUR REQUEST? SERIOUSLY? (OVER) On the back, the paper said: YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS ARE: TWELVE, JUPITER, ORION, DELTA, THREE, THETA, OMEGA. (WREAK VENGEANCE UPON GAEA, LEO VALDEZ.)
~ Rick Riordan
Life was for absorbing, not recording. And in the end, it was all just paper that someone would have to dispose of after you were gone.
~ Kate Atkinson
These things you know." Scarlett shook her head in a mock amazement. "Where do you get all this stuff from " "Books you know the things made from words printed on paper and bound together. Im sure you must have seen one even if you've never opened one " Max said. "Ha ha very funny " Scarlett said. Hannah found she had remembered how to smile.
~ Kate Forsyth
How'd you communicate? Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that -- she waved at him--- is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job
~ Kelley Armstrong
Is that…?" I nodded. I tried to explain, but the words wouldn't come. I handed him the paper. He finished reading it. "That's not…?" he murmured when he finished. "How…?" "Okay, what gives?" Corey said. "Personally, I wouldn't care if the U.S. declared war on Canada. Doesn't seem relevant under the circumstances.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Marcus Goldman in 1869 launched what would become Goldman, Sachs & Company and pioneered the use of what is known today as commercial paper. In return for lending a merchant, say, $900, Goldman would receive a written promise from the merchant to pay back $1,000. That paper could then be traded like a security.
~ Ken Auletta
They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.
~ Tupac Shakur
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
~ Rabbi Akiva