Quotes of Paper - somelinesforyou

“ The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ”

- John Burroughs

“ A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ All I know is just what I read in the papers. ”

- Will Rogers

“ I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. ”

- Johnny Knoxville

“ Fascism is not an article for export. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ”

- John Osborne

“ In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer. ”

- Naomi Campbell

“ News, news, news-that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. ”

- Arthur Christiansen

“ A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper. ”

- Dyer

“ Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have. ”

- Alicia Silverstone

“ It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ”

- Kingman Brewster

“ Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.'. ”

- John Lennon

“ Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper… sharp pencils… typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk… roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter… and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. ”

- Unknown

“ Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth. ”

- Lewis H. Lapham

“ Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism,... I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs. ”

- Lance Armstrong

“ All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb… ”

- Zedong Mao

“ A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ”

- Rod Serling

“ I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ”

- An English Professor

“ A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. ”

- Mark Ardis

“ 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. ”

- Joey Bishop

“ I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ”

- Gilbert Highet

“ Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. ”

- Will Rogers

“ On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help. ”

- Unknown

“ Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. ”

- Billy Wilder
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