Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . . and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".
Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.
In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.
he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you. With or Without that piece of paper
I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author. . . if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.