Papers – Quotes

I wrote a great

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. G. H. Hardy

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. Etty Hillesum

So I ask that

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact. Erving Goffman

Appearing on the front

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that’s seen by a lot of people. Errol Morris

I’ve just finished reading

I’ve just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I’d finished I said to myself, ‘Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.’ (1911) Ernest Rutherford

At the mention of

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude – a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a … Read more

I try to read

I try to read all news sources – not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum – and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts – and go from there. Eric Stoltz

You want to defend

You want to defend citizenship? Don’t persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That’d be a first-class way to be American. Eric Liu

My sister gained 80

My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear. Emo Philips

You have to make

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under. Emmeline Pankhurst