Handwriting Quotes

• Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Heart, Movement, Connected

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

  Bob Proctor

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 12, 2013

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• I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Saws, Imperfect, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

  John Adams

  People

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  A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

  Christian Dior

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Saving the Whales". Book by D. R. Schneider (p. 77), September 1, 2008.

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Information

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

  Lance Morrow

  Civilization, Casual

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• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Race, Average

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• If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Thinking, Skins

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.56, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

  Judy Blume

  Problem, Sometimes, My Own

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

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• And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Style, Important

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

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• I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

  Interview with Kate Ayers, www.bookreporter.com. February 8, 2002.

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• She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  May, Normal, Complicated

  "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.theguardian.com. 2011.

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• Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

  J. Norman Collie

  Funny, Reading, Men

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• Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

  Francine Prose

  Children, Inspire, Mystery

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books

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• Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Drawing, Looks

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• Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

  Mark Barrowcliffe

  Justice, Doe, Paper

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• Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

  Steve Carell

  Mom, Writing, Anomalies

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• Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Character, Needs

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• your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 26, 2003.

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• I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

  Paul Rand

  Calligraphy, Different, Asceticism

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• The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Men, Voice

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• Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Opportunity, Christian Inspirational

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