Quotes with paper

Quotes 21 till 40 of 107.

  • Susan Sontag Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Wordsworth Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Marlene Dietrich Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Les Brown Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • E. M. Forster I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Steve Martin I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Paul Valery If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Anne Tyler In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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