#paper

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#love #personal-papers #life

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#death #ending #kiss #paper #death

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#grief #news #newspapers #death

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. ↗

— William Sterrett

#leadership #paper #vision #education

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#high-school #journalism #journalists #media #newspapers

Sorry I'm late," Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late. ↗

— Adam Rex

#late #papers #school #teacher #funny

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#america #appearance #believe #centuries #current

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant

I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass. ↗

— Stephen King

#politics #men

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. ↗

— Will Rogers

#i #ignorance #just #know #papers