Fonts Quotes - Page 2

• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Years

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

  David Rees

  Geometric Shapes, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

  Questlove

  Art, Hate, Mixing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, People, Profound

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• Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Students, Classroom

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

  Kim Cattrall

  Character, Journey, Thinking

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America”

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• You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing they got right up front?” “The baptismal font?” “That’s it. They got it filled with holy water, free for the taking.” “Brilliant,” I said to Lula. She tapped her head with her finger. “No grass growin’ here.

  Janet Evanovich

  Water, Bird, Church

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Simple, Hands

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013

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• Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Patience, Rage, Force

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• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Multiple Jobs

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

  Pope Leo I

  Spiritual, Taken, Water

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• The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  Aaron Patzer

  Real, People, Design

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• In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

  Ed Wood

  Work, Afterlife, Worry

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• Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Hate, Design

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

  Paula Scher

  War, Vietnam, Helvetica

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• Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

  Miroslav Volf

  Goal, Desire, Creation

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• How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

  Bob Gill

  Culture, Use, Faces

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• In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Giving, Use, Slides

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• Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.

  Kim Harrison

  Sorry, Eye, Trying

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