Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Jeremy Irons

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Emily Saliers

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Gil Kane

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

My vocation to preach on paper.

Halle Berry

Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

Freeman Dyson

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

Gail Porter

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

Francine Busby

You don't need papers to vote...

Francesca Annis

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

Cassandra Clare

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

Proper hand-washing with the soap, water and paper towels, we believe, is the key,

Some seeds look a little better on papers than others, but on the mat is where it will be determined.

Charles Clark

Some say that the memoranda of understanding aren't worth the paper they are written on,

Harvey Fierstein

Deco, ... I have one at home, I used it for a toilet paper holder.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

It really shows on paper what I've always known. This team has a lot of heart.

This paper doesn't clinch it. I feel strongly that people are glossing over the problems with this interpretation,

There may be more; you never know. There are a lot of immigrants, those with papers and those without, here on the Treasure Coast.

Your papers will be safe and when your turn comes you can talk about it.

Janet Fitch

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Nancy Kerrigan

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

Muqtada al Sadr

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

Kim Harrison

Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)

J. K. Rowling

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

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

I can't stand violence. I can't picture myself doing anything like that paper says.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be true to what you said on paper.

John Green

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Gilbert Gottfried

Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.