Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Robertson

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

James Cook

Money could never have originated as paper.

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

You want to win an OCC match. On paper we should win.

Will Rogers

All I know is what I read in the papers

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

J. K. Rowling

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gail Porter

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Steve Carlton

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Richard Karn

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Kelley Armstrong

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

Mao Zedong

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Jonathan Lethem

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

All the paperwork has been submitted... we are waiting.

James Madison

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Joan Didion

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Joan Didion

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

John Lennon

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Jim Rohn

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Jim Rohn

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.