Top 1200 Ink And Paper Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

I got myself a really nice nib pen, with like 15 kinds of India Ink, and tons of different nibs; I think I was just procrastinating, like, once I have the right nib, the book is just going to jump right out of my fingertips... but then it just ended up looking like the shitty drawings that I usually do.

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

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

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

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

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

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.

On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.