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Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.”

World Looks Wanted Artist Steps Color Paper Gold Thirds Add Stuck Teeth Islands Cigarette Pirate Third World

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'”

People Ifs Numbers Goes On Paper Train Honey Puzzles Puppy Hooked Crosswords

Author:Betty White

“The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.”

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”

Hands Fall Money Tears Travel Paper France Falling Apart Toilets Toilet Paper

Book:Billy Wilder: Interviews

Source: Billy Wilder: Interviews

“The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.”

Art Said Culture Nations Gone Design Particular Hero Paper Unique Bills Celebrate Narrative Aspiration Goodbye Colorful Euro Utopian

Author:George Will

“Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.”

Humans Animal Paper Territory Ink Outlines Ink And Paper

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.”

Want Writing Novel Paper Humorous Letters Grades Papers Ladders Printed

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.”

School College Paper High School Application Papers Essays Sandwiches Peanuts Peanut Butter Crunchy Peanut Butter Sandwiches

Author:James Wolcott

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'”

Years Firsts Saws Comedy Paper Description Articles Boston Phoenix

Author:Steven Wright

“I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.”

Knows Needs Numbers Know How Pieces Paper Appropriate Pencils Sequence Pins

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”

May Book Action Reading Design Pride Conversation Waste Paper Weary

Author:William Butler Yeats

“All reactionaries are paper tigers.”

Paper Tigers Reactionaries

Author:Mao Zedong

“The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.”

People Looks States Facts Use United United States Terrible Paper Bombs Scare Atoms Tigers Reactionaries Atom Bomb Splitting The Atom

Author:Mao Zedong

“I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.”

Persons Ideas Jobs Rooms Pieces Inspire Paper Composer Towers Masterpiece Composing Ivory Tablets Ivory Tower Sinai

Author:John Zorn

“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.”

Ideas Soul Five Taught Lessons Bed Paper Lays Caught Newspapers My Soul Ran Pens Life Lesson Reflecting Columns Leaks Words On Paper

Author:Regina Brett

“On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.”

Sound Community Space Particular Depends Paper Be Good Atmosphere Workplace

Author:Alain de Botton

“It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.”

Long Produce Paper Magazines Sunset Ink

Author:Felix Dennis

“Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.”

People Paper Computer Errors Managers Copies Documents Sheets Email Flawless Memos

Author:Felix Dennis

“New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.”

Home Black Lines Party Doors Color Paper Metaphor Brown Bags Denied Elites Gathering New Orleans Criteria Entrances Castes Black Lives Paper Bags

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.”

Film Used Rooms Cutting Wall Paper Papers Posters

Author:Anurag Kashyap

“I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.”

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

Writing Mind Book Reading Paper Manage Books And Reading

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

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