“So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".” MaySeemsGivenDangerPaperEvidenceEuropeRemainsUnionsThreatActiveInstancePeacefulFranceInterviewsSovietSoviet UnionEasternMenacePeacefulnessFocal Point Author:Joseph Stalin
“There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but I wasn't quite sure it would work. I'd be in my room for six or seven hours, cutting up bits of paper with quotes and arranging them on the floor, with this little voice in my head saying, "Hey, this isn't writing!" But at the end of that day, I felt that the resulting section was doing important emotional work” WritingLittlesImportantEndsUseFeltBitsVoiceHoursRoomsCuttingEmotionalPaperSixDecidedHistoricalSevenHeySectionsSequenceHalfwayArrangingNuggetsVoices In My Head Author:George Saunders
“Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingMeanDoeMomentsHelpingSeemsAgeLiteratureResponsibilityStreetsCitizensPaperWeaponsOne WayPensExclusive Author:Wole Soyinka
“I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.” KnowsNumbersMorningReadyPaperPagesCleanFinishedCoveredEvery MorningSheetsEspresso Author:Wole Soyinka
“We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.” HouseWhitePaperWhite HouseToiletsToilet Paper Author:Barack Obama
“I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.” LittlesFeelingsBabyPaperExcitedTwinsSpectacularMaidsScrap Author:Al Pacino
“He was a great individual. People that don't know Patrick [Ewing] and only see what they read in the paper don't know this is a man of great integrity, love for his teammates, and love for this organization.” PeopleKnowsMenIndividualIntegrityPaperAnd LoveOrganizationTeammate Author:John Starks
“We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.” FirstsMayTwoWeekPaperSolutionsElectionResponseWinterLondonSettingSettingsMinistersOfficialsReasonablePrimeRealisticPrime MinisterPapersTwo WeeksBlairParametersBelfast Author:David Trimble
“I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.” ThinkingKnowsWritingSportsWalksStudyPaperPapersMerchantsLarry Author:Larry Holmes
“We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is not just a piece of paper, but a living document because we have created structures that are totally independent of the government and that can overrule the government, even the president.” GovernmentPresidentPiecesOur LivesRightsPaperIndependentBillsStructureIncludingEducationalUniformsDocumentsEquityBill Of RightsEducational System Author:Nelson Mandela
“Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.” WorldBeliefIssuesEssentialsGoodnessPaperDestroyedBullshitBeauty Of The World Author:Zadie Smith
“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.” PeopleKnowsWayWantBelieveStatesReasonTodayAmericaLyingPoorUnitedUnited StatesGroupsGreatnessColorPaperDiversityYeahFactorsPapersTransgenderDid You KnowMadisonFederalistFederalist Papers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.” ThinkingWayWantShouldTryingFallFoundCareersFailingNeededPaperMajorsIncludingJournalismMaking MoneyJournalistNovelistsCampusFall BackInternships Author:Kevin Maney
“If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.” IfsUsedValuesPaperOrganizationConstitutionWords On Paper Author:Bill Capodagli
“I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.” KnowsWayHas BeensProblemCertainCausesMoralTroubleSpeechPaperPapersKate Author:Hilary Mantel
“I still think of myself as a newspaper guy and you live by deadlines in the newspaper world, so, they don't really give you any excuses. At the paper they never say, "Well, we just won't have Tuesday's paper come out, we'll just bring Tuesday's paper out on Wednesday, so go ahead, take all the time you need." They come out with that paper regardless.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingWellsStillsGuyPaperExcuseNewspapersLive ByDeadlineTuesdayWednesday Author:Dave Barry
“Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together. Writing a book is very hard, it's like writing 15 college term papers in a row, and you are just like, "when is going to end?" You can communicate so much more when you are writing a book, and you can go so much deeper.” WritingBookDifferentEndsHardTogetherFunTermCollegePaperSeasonsExcitingCommunicateDeeperPapersWriting A BookDraftingTerm Paper Author:Stephen Kendrick
“At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.” ShouldWritingDiesNovelPaperDecidedFocusedSeniorJuniorsVirginiaThesisLighthouseBeckettPrincetonWoolfMrs Dalloway Author:David Duchovny
“[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are dumb enough to take faith in a gentleman's agreement with us, that's your problem. NATO expanded to East Germany.” PeopleIfsLooksEnoughProblemPaperEastDumbGentlemanGermanyAgreementImplicationsNatoGorbachevEast Germany Author:Noam Chomsky
“I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.” FactsStoriesRememberNew YorkInvolvedPaperPagesMachinesPunishmentDenialDesignerChairsBuriedArticlesHolocaustExecutionElectricHumaneNew York TimesHeadingsCapital PunishmentHolocaust DenialElectric Chair Author:Errol Morris
“Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.” PeopleStillsStatesTodayGivenFrontsNew YorkPaperPagesPapersNew York TimesAppearing Author:Errol Morris
“I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.” FeelsFirstsLittlesTodayNamesBitsBoysPaperLittle BitListsWorriedBritain Author:Richard Dawkins
“Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to process those and write it down on paper and put my hands on the keyboard before they become the past.” WantFeelsWritingHandsPastSongProcessPaperInspiredFinishedJapanWriting SongsKeyboards Author:Angela Aki
“I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.” WritingTwoDreamSchoolJobsGoneWeekPaperLateHigh SchoolCurrents Author:Judy Blume
“[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.” LittlesKidsArmsPaperLegsBoardsDollsSurgeons Author:Judy Blume
“Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.” BigsAbilityWallBlessingPaperCursePens Author:Alicia Keys
“The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper. It doesn't really mean anything to us. The only way we can make this thing a reality in America is to do all we can to destroy this system and bring this out to the light that has been under the cover all these years.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsYearsMeanHas BeensWholeHomeRealityLightAmericaBlackLandPaperBraveWhole WorldUpsetBlack PeopleReally MeanMississippiLand Of The Free Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingWholePaperCompulsionWords On Paper Author:Lee Kelly
“Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.” IdeasEnoughConversationPaperNotesStormNervousCaptureLightningJournalElectronics Author:Paul Saffo
“Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.” IfsShouldBelieveStillsMightChristianI BelieveDemocracyInvolvedOffersPaperConscienceVoteI Believe InCandidatesSeatsProtestBallotsParliamentary Author:N. T. Wright
“Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage to say certain things in people's faces and started to put these feelings on paper... Over the years, became a mania and then I never talk about for whom they are made.” PeopleWritingYearsKindMadeFeelingsFacesCertainSongWrittenPaperSuperstitionsWriting SongsMania Author:Enrique Iglesias
“I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantHardForceI BelievePiecesPaperFindingsAnd LoveInstitutionsImportant ThingsI Believe InLoyaltyHard TimesFinding SomeoneLove And Loyalty Author:Enrique Iglesias
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayAbilityTalkingSeeingHonestMediaChangedPaperApproachNewsPlentyAlternativesBeing HonestRealmsOnlineStoppingPapersItemsPublishColumnsBloggingColumnistsPeople TalkingTalking Back Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.” PeopleMayAgeFormDarkBreakWorryInformationHugeAmountPaperEdgesCommitDigitalMassiveDark AgesAmnesiaIcebergBreak Off Author:Paul Saffo
“The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends (nodding at the students) are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today's 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.” YearsIdeasSoulTodayLostStuffDifferencesClassGenerationsDangerStudentsPaperIntimateCollectivesDragReportersJournalReunionIdioticCyberspaceNoddingClass Reunion Author:Paul Saffo
“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.” WritingBookOrderChanceNumbersQualityFourColorHugeHigherCostPaperOceanFunctionSellsExpensiveCustomsTelephonesPrintingPackingInventoryShippingHuge NumbersClearance Author:Dan Poynter
“Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.” TwoAbleLawMonthsOfficePaperBlessedFortunateExceptionPushingTwo Months Author:Jon Gordon
“[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.” LittlesTwoIdeasEndsWantedBeautifulFormWishHalfPiecesPaperIncrediblesDrawingInstancePocketsExplorationTallBreakfastPotInchesPlatesVolumePencilsStolenExquisiteScrapCeramicsDraftsman Author:Warren MacKenzie
“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.” IfsLittlesDoneWantedFormStuffBitsPiecesFrontsProducePaperLittle BitDrawingPocketsPotPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.” AbleWantedProcessSawsPiecesHappenedDangerPaperDirectLaysPlanningWheelsExecutingPlanning Things Author:Warren MacKenzie
“As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You know how these media narratives are. They're like bamboo." Meaning, once they start growing, you can't kill them.” KnowsSaidKnow HowGrowingMediaPaperMajorsNewspapersTendenciesNarrativeBamboo Author:George Weigel
“"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where I'd start.” BelievePaperDon't BelievePopePapers Author:George Weigel
“That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.” StillsMatterStatesMomentsWould BeFacesMotherUnitedUnited StatesHavensPaperMessagesOriginalsImpactCourtSupremeDullComing OutSupreme CourtMailboxes Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.” KnowsNeedsSometimesMy OwnStepsStageCreationBalancePaperShadowTricksPensPerpetualOngoingSteps ForwardCenter Stage Author:Allison Joseph
“Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.” LongRealDifferencesPiecesPaper Author:J. Cole
“One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that it's nothing if not perpetually topical. You don't have to dig too deeply into today's paper to find slaves and masters, evil authorities.” PeopleIfsThinkingTodayEvilMastersAuthorityPaperSlaveGreat ThingsComing Back Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.” ThinkingWritingTryingMindI CanOne ThingReaderScenePaperPagesChapters Author:Robert Cormier
“For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.” DoneHalfPiecesPaperDeedsBlankInitialsOne Half Author:Colin Dexter
“When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.” WritingLooksI CanDoneFacesPiecesTenPaperResearchPercentMy TimeBlank Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.” IfsFeelsPaperFeel GoodWorriedMake Sense Author:Ian Simpson