“It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?” KnowsLooksMeanPaperFantasticDiceMovie Business Author:Kevin McKidd
“People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLooksStillsPaperAnnoyingNastyText Me Author:Zara Phillips
“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.” IfsWayShouldLooksDifferentSongRoomsTalkingPiecesInformationDesignPaperUniqueShould HaveEightBarsKicksFormulasArchitectBlankInitials Author:Ryan Tedder
“I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.” YearsLooksStillsPiecesMilitaryChangedWallMembersPaperShotsMy FamilyGreenPocketsChemicalsGrandfatherFamily MembersColonelsConfederateCompositesGreat GrandfatherCavalry Author:Anson Mount
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.” IfsLooksAgeFunnyNamesMorningPaperPagesWake UpAgingNineGet UpThriveEvery MorningGood MorningEarly MorningStart The DayObituaryHave A Good DayWaking Up In The MorningMorning InspirationalFunny Good MorningGood Morning InspirationalWaking Up Every MorningMorning Routines Author:Benjamin Franklin
“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.” IfsWritingLooksSometimesStoriesCoursesOpportunityTermFictionClassCreativePaperMajorsHistoricalJournalismIf I CouldHistorical FictionPapersCreative WritingScandinaviansTerm Paper Author:George R. R. Martin
“The Dark Knight series is all from Batman's point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you'll see a Superman who's much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They're not people. They're only lines on paper.” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksLinesDarkViewsPaperOppositesSeriesPoint Of ViewKnightsCalmerBatman Dark Knight Author:Frank Miller
“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.” HumansWellsLooksValuesSacrificeFiguresBalancePaperBudgetsHuman LifeSheetsBourgeoisAccountingBalance Sheets Author:Simone Weil
“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.” IfsLooksArtHandsBitsPaperPhotographyCamerasVideoBoresPencilsVideo Cameras Author:David Hockney
“I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.” WritingLooksWaterWorryWrittenTroubleSkyPaperMarkAdversityDown AndBlowBeachSandTidesShellsYardsFragmentsVaultsKneeling Author:Arthur Gordon Webster
“When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.” WritingLooksMomentsMotivationalSufferingSituationWonderfulConditionsBlessingPaperAvailablePensMany Blessings Book:Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life Source: Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingLooksAbleKnow HowFoolPaper Author:Ray Bradbury
“Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.” LooksPracticeFailingPaperFinancialWork OutSynergyWisps Author:Peter Drucker
“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.” ThinkingFeelsWritingFirstsLooksSongThreePiecesFourMountainPaperPressureClimbsBlankBelts Author:Martin Gore