Top 1200 Paper And Pen Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.

They say the pen is mightier than the sword and I would like to have the ability to write things down and make them happen. So I guess I would like to be a screenwriter.

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.

I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I don't know if he needs a tic tac or toilet paper.

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.