Top 1200 Paper Airplanes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

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

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

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

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

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

For some reason, the only Swedish I know how to say is, 'There is no toilet paper.'

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

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

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

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster.

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

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

We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live.

I do what I do because I have a compulsion to hold forth. I don't spend a lot of time, if any, thinking about the effect my work is going to have on the world. And I have an abiding mistrust of people who think that they're going to change the world. I think that people who think that they're going to change the world are the kind of people who put bombs on airplanes.

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

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

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

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

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

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

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

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

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

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

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

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

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

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

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter verified paper trail.