#paper

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#fire #ice #imagine #necessary #nostalgia

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics. ↗

— William Vickrey

#economics #into #paper

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. ↗

— John Updike

#blank #blank paper #characters #chilled #day

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#because #called #ever #get #here

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.' ↗

— Chris Christie

#i #newspaper #oh #read #said

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#expect #family #got #know #like

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#change #consumption #everything #huge #i

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#canned #like #music #wallpaper

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it. ↗

— Ville Valo

#anything #does #emotional #emotional thing #enjoy