The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
– Alfred de Vigny
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- We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. – William Sterrett
- If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. – Jostein Gaarder
- Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo’s masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us. – John Larkin
- I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. – Susan Hill
- It’s easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. – SA Bodeen
- Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- His [Morel’s] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. – Marcel Proust
- Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea. – Franoise Sagan
- i do concentrate to make my soul beautiful more than my Body just for the reason because one day my body will expire but my soul is imperishable – Mohammed Zaki Ansari
- To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one’s self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. – Aleister Crowley
- The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. – Jazz Feylynn
- Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will make you mad for it – Vignesh SV
- A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ….it is a matter of time , you will get there. – Osunsakin Adewale
- The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits. – David Foster Wallace
- Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. – Jasper Fforde
- On paper it’s perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns. – Cat Patrick
- Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.That paper tried to roll me upinto an Egyptian mummy. – Melinda K Trotter
- One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. – Harold Holzer
- We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder. – Robert Jordan
- Pain was a torn piece of paper. – Maggie Stiefvater
- To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper. – Bruce Crown
- Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump. – Joyce Rachelle
- A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you. – Debasish Mridha
- Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- He was the piece of paper she would set on fire. – Kim Pape
- If you see a piece of paper on the floor, don’t ignore it, pick it up, write down your dream, and carry it everywhere you go . . . – Manuel Corazzari
- Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. – Anthony Liccione
- That’s truth, Harvey, not what’s written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see – but the memory of how it felt being together. – Simon Van Booy
- College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you’re qualified. – Korey Miracle
- I’m a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, ’cause I remember it all too well – Taylor Swift
- Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper. – Fennel Hudson
- Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami – Alejandro Colliard
- A piece of paper doesn’t make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet. – DR Silva
- I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free. – Michelangelo