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A web page is only a page until its printed. Then it can...

A web page is only a page until its printed. Then it can be any number of pages.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about numbers

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war, concentration, world, people

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and...

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, public, creation, opinion, country, people

Flaws of style and sequence would fairly leap off the...

Flaws of style and sequence would fairly leap off the page and the means to correct them would, too.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about style

The best thing is the discovery of the character as...

The best thing is the discovery of the character as performed. That's the best part of the work. It's how it comes off the page.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about character, work, things

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about literature, couple, things, writing, perfection, rightness, work

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about earth, age, olderness, life

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read...

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about world

I love tinkering with the web site. I'm a Mac user, and it's fun for me to create a web page with HTML, but I have two kids and a lot of work to do, so it's rare that I can steal the four or five hours it takes to pack together a good addition to...

Quote by Michael Chabon about work, good, good luck, love

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about film

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and...

Quote by Chris Isaak about trains, past, home, old, olderness

If you make the letters in your Word document bigger and then you print it out, you'll have everything on the first page and only one line on the second.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, word

75% of the bugs laws in this page can be applied to MS...

75% of the bugs laws in this page can be applied to MS Windows.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The night before the English history midterm, your...

The night before the English history midterm, your Biology instructor will assign two hundred pages on planarian.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, night, history

The printer is either out of toner or there is no paper...

The printer is either out of toner or there is no paper only when the client asks for 10 copies of a 120 page report by evening.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages, he's fantastic.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Quote by Joy Page about eternity, sadness

Choose beliefs that serve your soul choose beliefs that...

Choose beliefs that serve your soul choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

Quote by Joy Page about dream, soul

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and...

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Quote by Joy Page about life

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