Top 1200 Wrapping Paper Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

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.

We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

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

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.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

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 cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

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

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

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.

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.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

John Logan was kind of wrapping up - "Well, thanks for coming in..." - and I thought, "Oh, God, this is over and I'm out of here, and I really don't want to leave."So I said, "Can I ask you a question?" He said, "Sure." "What movie do you think you've seen more than any other movie?" And he said, "Wow, let me think about that. I guess probably The Searchers." And I said, "Well, oddly, that's the movie I've seen more than any other movie." And I wasn't just BS-ing. It's true. It's my favorite movie.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

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.

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.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

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.

I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.