Paper Quotes

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

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.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?

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

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

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

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.