Top 1200 Wrapping Paper Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
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.
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.
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.
Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"
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.
I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
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.
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?
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
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.
My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'
It's not hard to generate a paper fortune in a huge inflation. All you have to do is own the most important economic assets: energy, communication, and transportation.
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
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.
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
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.
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
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.
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.
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.
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 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.
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.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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.
They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.
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.
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
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.
It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.
How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
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.
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.
I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.
All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'
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.
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.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
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.
Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
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.
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.
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.
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.
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'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.
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.
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.
