Printed Quotes

Much is published, but little printed.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

— Anonymous

The whole process of getting cards printed is so cumbersome.

— Neelam Kothari

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

— Robert Darnton

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

— Dennis Potter

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

— Clifford Odets

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

— Karl Lagerfeld

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

— Ben Elliot

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

— El Lissitzky

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

— Woody Allen

...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

— Carlo M. Cipolla

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

— Cornelia Funke

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

— Paul Kantner

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

— Willie Geist

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

— Hermann E. Ott

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that…

— Maurice Nicoll

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which…

— Leo Rosten

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no…

— Christopher Moore

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer…

— Andy Rooney

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions,…

— Wallace Stegner

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like…

— Richard Branson

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a…

— Thorstein Veblen

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it.…

— Daniel Tammet

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are…

— Jim Gaffigan

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through…

— John William Strutt

In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.…

— Mohsin Hamid

There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these…

— Rush Limbaugh

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll…

— Harold Evans

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron…

— Agnes Repplier

I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with…

— Charles Spurgeon

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed…

— Marina Warner