Staples Quotes

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She loved them so much that she had stapled things that weren't supposed to be stapled. The things looked better stapled, but her mother didn't think so, and now Bean was outside.

She was going to be outside for a long time.”
― Annie Barrows, What's the Big Idea?

“She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and hop.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”
― CS Lewis

“The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

“I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

“We were like velcro with all the noise it makes when you take the two pieces apart, hugging like staples, we went until there, this time for good it’s over.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“There is no vision until you decide what you deserve & staple it to your eyeballs.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones