Best Paper Quotes

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

No vision is worth the paper it’s printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

I’m also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.

This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

I really can’t be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that’s nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

If you tell anything to a woman … it’s like putting it in the papers.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener – we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you’re writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you’re not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

I didn’t have to do paper routes. I’d sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I’d have four or five on some Saturdays.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret… to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

And that’s what got me to the piano, that’s what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as ‘material’ as a ton of lead.

I talk to the friends in my head on paper.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it’s almost a form of acting when we’re doing music videos. We’re acting out our own thoughts and what we’ve written down on paper.

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

It isn’t a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

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

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.