“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .” MenLittlesBitsDemocracyWalkingPaperLittle BitCrossesPaidBottomPencilsTributeLittle Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.” ShouldTryingYearsI CanGuyPaperDrawsPaidUniversityComicAdsCampusCartoonistFreshmanComic StripsFunny GuyFreshman Year Author:Dan Povenmire
“The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.” GovernmentMillionsMaterialsPaperPaidTapePapersWatergate Author:Dexter Scott King
“I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.” BelieveEnoughUseValuesI BelieveTechnologyReadyMaterialsPaperPaidNewspapersVersionsConsumersOnlinePrintProtectedPublishersPapersCirculationImplementationDrm Author:Robert G. Picard
“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.” MenGivingRealAnswersPaySilenceFireHigherPromisePaperPaidCharityPaymentBribeSufferersPostponement Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.” WritingBookIdeasWantedBlackInfluenceCollegeCostPaperPercentProgramPaidEmployeeMillsPart TimeTuitionBlack Humor Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.” HomeLeftNaturalRiskCryPaperPaidPapersVulgar Author:Julie Burchill
“I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.” MenHumansPersonsMadeCharacterFallNamesHuman BeingsAttentionDogTerriblePaperHappeningsPaidGravesGreat MenLots Of MoneyFinestTerrible ThingsSalesmanOld Dog Author:Arthur Miller
“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.” MenTwoWatchesPaperBallsPaidTwentiesWoodsSoccerKicksInkViolinSoccer PlayerTwenty TwoSoccer FootballMotivational SoccerSoccer Is My LifeSoccer Ball Author:J. B. Priestley
“Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.” IfsInspirationalMadeInspirationMotivationalJoyCan DoDealsFictionForeverWrittenPurePaperPaidFulfilledYou Can Do ItBuzzSingle WordDoughDoing What You LovePure JoyLoving What You Do Author:Stephen King
“At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.” PeopleAgeWantedJobsMy OwnSawsPaperPaidBeing The BestRoutesGood Job Author:Puff Daddy