Quotes and Sayings About Paper
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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.
-- A. C. Benson -
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
-- Abraham PaisSource : Abraham Pais (2005). “Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, p.90, Oxford University Press
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "Man of Fetters" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2008.
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The world is full of paper, write to me
-- Agha Shahid AliSource : Agha Shahid Ali (1987). “The Half-Inch Himalayas”, p.48, Wesleyan University Press
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
-- Aimee Bender -
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
-- Aimee Mullins -
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Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
-- Akira Yoshizawa -
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
-- Alan Cooper -
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
-- Alan Furst -
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
-- Albert Camus -
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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.
-- Alex GarlandSource : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin
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It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
-- Alexander Ostrovsky -
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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.
-- Alfonso Ribeiro -
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In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
-- Alfred de Vigny -
We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.290, Cosimo, Inc.
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
-- Alfred Schnittke -
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Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
-- Alison LurieSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
-- Allen Funt -
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
-- Alonzo Church -
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Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
-- Alvin Martin -
I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
-- Amanda Bynes