I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.
Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.
The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature - it's not bad for them if a paper turns out to be wrong, if it's gotten a lot of attention.
Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.
Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.
By the way, six A. M. ? Not a real great time for me; you know, I'm a comic. I get off work at two. Six A. M. , I'm a little grumpy. Six A. M. , I'm a little P. O. ed. Six A. M. , I'm like a vampire with a paper route.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.