#paper

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#book #centers #comes #cops #eavesdrop

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #anything #currency #gold #having

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #being #bizarre #brain #days

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#articles #break-up #driving #evening #home

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#appearing #create #i #i am #just

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#behind #child #cut #even #feeling

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#expands #fill #find #i #often

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#application #clever #concern #cryptography #deep