Quotes of: Paper-currency Keyword

Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste.

Homaro Cantu

A politician’s autobiography is a book that’s nothing more than a collection of paper, like toilet paper, only it’s stacked instead of rolled.  

Sleepwalking is restercise

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790

Well, honey, it is the south. These debutantes know how to verbally kick anyone’s ass. They learned it from their mamas in the womb.

On Paper Wings

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Demetri Martin

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

Rick Moody

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Barry Eisler

Max Baer: [to Braddock after a boxing round] You're going home in butcher paper, pal! BUTCHER PAPER!

Cinderella Man

Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: You know this boy? Orderly: Name is Cole, sir. He's a paper hanger. Surgeon Maj. Reynolds: Well, he's a dead paper hanger now.

Zulu

I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

David Boies

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Jack Herer

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

It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.

Woody Harrelson

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stag...

C. JoyBell C.

Marcus Brody: My reputation preceeds me. Sallah: There is no museum in Iskenderun. German Guide: Papers, please. Sallah: [laughing] Papers? Of course [to Marcus] Sallah: Run. Marcus Brody: Yes. Sallah: Papers. Got it here. Just finished reading it my...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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

Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Letters and Papers from Prison

You just gotta love someone with full force, even if it hurts you. Even if you end up regretting it, at least you gave it your all.

On Paper Wings

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

Marc Jacobs

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Neil Gaiman

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that'...

Herb Caen