#paper

Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life. ↗

— John Irving

#junk-food #newspapers #politics #food

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bible #bit #cell #consolation #could

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

Washington newspaper men know everything. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#know #men #newspaper #washington

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. ↗

— Hugo Black

#founders #government #hoped #led #newspapers

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that? ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#blank #blank paper #cd #doing #every

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. ↗

— Howard Dean

#capital #going #harder #investing #makes

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

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle? ↗

— Matt Drudge

#concerned #cycle #day #done #during

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#fieldwork #folklore #i #involving #more