#pap

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clerk #doctor #get #hall #heart

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #got #i #i am #i think

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ↗

— Lukas Foss

#empty #happen #how #i #i do

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#over #paper #somehow #structural #tend

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. ↗

— Michael Gartner

#corporate #decision #lost #may #much

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#also #books #cartoons #got #i

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#craft #done #found #give #greater

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#beings #empress #i #i am #i write

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. ↗

— David Halberstam

#brought #chandler #did #excellence #grand

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#every #human #human situation #lies #paper