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WILLIAM NORMAN BIRKETT![]()
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN![]()
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
UNKNOWN The assurances of known torturers, many of whom deny the use of torture even when it is widely docum...
MIKE BLAKEMORE A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. [Attributed]
LOUIS B. MAYER![]()
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because th...
CHARLES PETERS![]()
I think the prime minister should bring forward his reshuffle and make these arrangements and say go...
DAVID CAMERON![]()
His [Joseph M. Schenk's] verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa).
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC![]()
Clarke's First L...
ISAAC ASIMOV I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what w...
MARTIN L. GROSS![]()
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make t...
YITZHAK RABIN The Uzbek government's promises not to torture these men are not worth the paper they're written on....
HOLLY CARTNER she wrote in a statement. ''If there are 'memoranda of understanding' between this country and the b...
GARETH PEIRCE Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.
GARY HART I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle c...
A. CRETAN![]()
In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...
FULTON J. SHEEN And its election oath, which states that each ANC candidate commits him-or herself to fighting 'agai...
DOUGLAS GIBSON Some would say that they are terrorists. Others would say that they are freedom fighters. It depends...
JAMES MORRIS ROBINSON![]()
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON![]()
The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poe...
PAUL AUSTER![]()
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON![]()
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON We're not asking for memoranda of understanding or any legal document. We're not asking [companies] ...
ERN BLACKWELDER![]()
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
TALCOTT PARSONS![]()
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on
SAMUEL GOLDWYN [Clarke said a Europe-wide approach on deporting extremists would bolster the fight against terroris...
CHARLES CLARKE![]()
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)![]()
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).
BOB BOWLSBY The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper,
IBRAHIM ALI![]()
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG![]()
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS That fact could have been ascertained with one phone call to our offices. If that accusation is repr...
DOUG BAILEY I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU![]()
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM![]()
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC![]()
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC![]()
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW![]()
Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But whe...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR ...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and th...
DR HENRY GEORGE CHARLES CLARKE Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not de...
ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT![]()
To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that G...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong K...
ANTHONY HOLDEN Some weigh-in, even though they are ignorant of the things they say. Some opt-out, even though they ...
FATHOM![]()
This could never be a crime no matter what words are written on paper... just like it was never a cr...
JACK KEVORKIAN My most precious possession is a piece of paper with his feelings about me written on it.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good abou...
KIMBERLY GILES ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST![]()
...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)
"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER![]()
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 20...
KENNETH R. MILLER![]()
So few people understand about anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER![]()
You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each squa...
KURT VONNEGUT![]()
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathem...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON![]()
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD![]()
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY![]()
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD![]()
nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI To me, they have some kind of mystique about them. They're like the (Atlanta) Braves. They may look ...
STEVE PETTUS![]()
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
DYLAN MORAN![]()
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are mo...
MARVIN MINSKY Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
FANNIE HURST Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it
FANNIE HURST![]()
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN![]()
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Randomness is the name we give to the ordered processes of the universe we don't understand.
JIM GENOVESE![]()
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES![]()
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO![]()
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama a...
DAVID IGNATIUS![]()
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND The Home Office did not think it necessary to give a single word of explanation to those individuals...
GARETH PEIRCE![]()
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not...
MARK TWAIN![]()
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Clarke is that the final won final one
APURVA GAGLANI They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written...
IBRAHIM JAFARI![]()
Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ...
FRANK MCCOURT Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the fir...
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
JAMES PURDY The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
They caught all the toilet paper and paper products on fire in the bathroom. They lost the whole bui...
DAVID BAILEY
WILLIAM NORMAN BIRKETT
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. SAMUEL GOLDWYN
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. UNKNOWN The assurances of known torturers, many of whom deny the use of torture even when it is widely docum...
MIKE BLAKEMORE A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. [Attributed]
LOUIS B. MAYER
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. SAMUEL GOLDWYN Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because th...
CHARLES PETERS
I think the prime minister should bring forward his reshuffle and make these arrangements and say go... DAVID CAMERON
His [Joseph M. Schenk's] verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on. SAMUEL GOLDWYN Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa).
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC
Clarke's First L... ISAAC ASIMOV I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what w...
MARTIN L. GROSS
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make t...
YITZHAK RABIN The Uzbek government's promises not to torture these men are not worth the paper they're written on....
HOLLY CARTNER she wrote in a statement. ''If there are 'memoranda of understanding' between this country and the b...
GARETH PEIRCE Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.
GARY HART I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle c...
A. CRETAN
In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were... FULTON J. SHEEN And its election oath, which states that each ANC candidate commits him-or herself to fighting 'agai...
DOUGLAS GIBSON Some would say that they are terrorists. Others would say that they are freedom fighters. It depends...
JAMES MORRIS ROBINSON
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON
The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poe... PAUL AUSTER
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON We're not asking for memoranda of understanding or any legal document. We're not asking [companies] ...
ERN BLACKWELDER
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. TALCOTT PARSONS
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on SAMUEL GOLDWYN [Clarke said a Europe-wide approach on deporting extremists would bolster the fight against terroris...
CHARLES CLARKE
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. OGDEN NASH Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).
BOB BOWLSBY The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper,
IBRAHIM ALI
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS That fact could have been ascertained with one phone call to our offices. If that accusation is repr...
DOUG BAILEY I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. ANNA HELD I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW
Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But whe... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR ...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and th...
DR HENRY GEORGE CHARLES CLARKE Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not de...
ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that G... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong K...
ANTHONY HOLDEN Some weigh-in, even though they are ignorant of the things they say. Some opt-out, even though they ...
FATHOM
This could never be a crime no matter what words are written on paper... just like it was never a cr... JACK KEVORKIAN My most precious possession is a piece of paper with his feelings about me written on it.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good abou...
KIMBERLY GILES ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST
...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)
"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 20... KENNETH R. MILLER
So few people understand about anything. MARGARET ATWOOD Offensive linemen arent real athletes.
ANTHONY WEAVER
You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each squa... KURT VONNEGUT
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathem... DOUGLAS ADAMS Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ... ALDOUS HUXLEY
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD
nothing's news.it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a
STEVE PETTUS
Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. DYLAN MORAN
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are mo... MARVIN MINSKY Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
FANNIE HURST Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it
FANNIE HURST
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Randomness is the name we give to the ordered processes of the universe we don't understand.
JIM GENOVESE
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama a... DAVID IGNATIUS
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. EZRA POUND The Home Office did not think it necessary to give a single word of explanation to those individuals...
GARETH PEIRCE
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not... MARK TWAIN
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Clarke is that the final won final one
APURVA GAGLANI They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written...
IBRAHIM JAFARI
Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ... FRANK MCCOURT Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the fir...
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
JAMES PURDY The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS...
They caught all the toilet paper and paper products on fire in the bathroom. They lost the whole bui... DAVID BAILEY
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth... 
I would put myself towards left of center. 
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended up... 
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. 
I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those. 
When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and other... 
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers... 
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard. 
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. 
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more p... 