Printed Quotes
300 quotes by 271 authors
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There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
— Jonathan Swift
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look,…
— A. E. van Vogt
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
— William Faulkner
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Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play…
— William Kurelek
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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What…
— Henry Wotton
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The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy…
— Tina Fey
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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
— Margaret Smith
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...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a…
— Bruce Barnbaum
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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre…
— Milton Glaser
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,…
— Christopher Columbus
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The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing…
— Gillian Flynn
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Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.…
— Walter Lippmann
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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
— Jack Welch
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My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the…
— Camille Paglia
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More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and,…
— Johann Georg Hamann
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I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one…
— Stefan Zweig
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We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby…
— Jan Tschichold
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