Top 1200 Paper Clips Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.
Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.
Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.
I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong.
Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone or reading a policy paper.
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.
At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.
The National Energy Board process was completely flawed. It didn't allow interveners to do cross-examination, and they said we could do paper questions.
Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.
I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond...
And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.
I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme.
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.
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.
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
