#pap

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#doing #earning #i #money #obsessed

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#paper #politician #promise #worth #written

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

#feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#morning #new #newspaper #nothing #old

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#big impact #cannes #couple #far #film

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#defending #i #i think #like #paparazzi

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#editor #guru #hebrew #house #i

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#assassinations #businessmen #eight #first #first time

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#crawl #decided #die #direction #find