Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
My family recycles paper and bottles, but I reckon a proper wormery for the garden compost would be the way to go.
There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.
The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.
Until the writers room sets it down on a sheet of paper and then it gets in front of a camera, it's all vaporware.
Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.
I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.
In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the students chasing for four years.
Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.
You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.
When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.
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