Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

Kelley Armstrong

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

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

Olive Schreiner

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Michael Grant

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

Michael Chabon

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

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.

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.

Scott Brooks

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Ray Charles

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

Todd Solondz

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

Solange Knowles

I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.

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.

Lisa Randall

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

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

Will Rogers

All I know is what I read in the papers

Maria Sharapova

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

Max Lucado

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

Mao Zedong

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

Lewis H. Lapham

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Joseph Campbell

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said

John Lothrop Motley

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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.