Top 1200 Written On Paper Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go to a point where all you have is coins and bars of gold, but I do think that we are going to have to go back to a monetary system based in gold, not based on paper.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

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

I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

Paper has more patience than people.

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

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

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

An unread book is just a block of paper.

It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

The world is full of paper, write to me

Money could never have originated as paper.

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

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

Time kept on and on like the cheapest toilet paper.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

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

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel."

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

I am very interested in the culture of paper.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

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

Paper is more patient than man.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.