Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Jamie Cullum

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Everyone should have a fireproof box, for one thing, where you can keep valuable papers and photos of your belongings.

At the end of the day, I think it's not quite what you read in the paper or what Mr. Ashcroft said in Washington today.

We're taking a risk here to see if this works. On paper it's awesome. It's going to give teams fits.

Is there a way we can have people go through more quickly. Is there more paperwork needed? Can we speed up the process. That's what I want to know. And I want to know how the volunteers are working with us.

Alamgir Hashmi

What can this piece of paper do; imagine?

Craig Patrick

We look pretty on paper but what are we? What are we? I don't know, but we're going to find out.

The public is not going to see a lot of this stuff in the paper until it comes to a close.

Alison Lurie

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Lindsay Fox

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

Dolley Madison

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

Dolly Parton

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Dick Gregory

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

Anna Held

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

David Ayer

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

Corey Dillon

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

Anthony Kiedis

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Anna Nicole Smith

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

Andrew Jackson

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Amy Vanderbilt

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...

We have not received any paperwork on that from them.

Randy Schekman

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Thomas Jefferson

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

Steve McClaren

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is!

Steve Carlton

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

Red Buttons

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Vince Cable

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

Stanley Kubrick

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.