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  • It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag. -- Joan Didion
  • I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy! -- Brittany Snow
  • I can't argue my way out of a paper bag. -- Gabriel Macht
  • I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. -- Jeremy Grantham
  • I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. -- Pat Paulsen
  • I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. -- Rick Smolan
  • You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. -- Aldrich Ames
  • I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. -- Bill Dixon
  • Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. -- Wendy Wasserstein
  • I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. -- Frank Luntz
  • Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it. -- Joe Elliott
  • I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so. -- Nia Long
  • Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be. -- Lady Gaga
  • I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. -- Jay-Z
  • That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! -- Robert McCloskey
  • New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy. -- Nicolas Berggruen
  • I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion. -- Claron McFadden
  • And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile. -- David James Duncan
  • Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away -- Dee Snider
  • I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man. -- Jerry Newport
  • Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside. -- Brad Holland
  • I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing. -- Robert Mangold
  • The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. -- Tom Robbins
  • The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag. -- Clive James
  • Oh, obviously," Reyna said. "Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag." "True," Annabeth agreed. -- Rick Riordan
  • Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. -- James Turrell
  • The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions. -- David L. Bazelon
  • The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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