Printed Quotes

• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Writing, Wheat Fields

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Teacher, Book

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• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Printed Books, Printed Word, Offending

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

  George Orwell

  News, Want, Advertising

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• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  Saint Augustine

  Interesting, Action, Christianity

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• For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

  Olivier Zahm

  Memories, Leaving, Today

  Source: wwd.com

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• The printed page was like wine to me.

  Robert E. Howard

  Wine, Pages

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Book, Vision, Language

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• By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Girl, Real, Cards

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

  Jean Cocteau

  Causes, Protection

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Printed Word, Want

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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• [The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers survive, being printed at home... Or you’ll have a local print shop, so that rather than waiting for the newspapers to arrive by truck, which is 30 percent at least of a newspaper’s cost, you’ll go in and push a button, and it will take your dollar bills without anyone having to be there. And it will print the newspaper for you while you wait. It will take seven minutes. There’s a terrific future for print in my view and it gives me great heart.

  Harold Evans

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret, either for publication or for a journal no one will see, or we write poems to be privately printed for the eyes of friends alone - this is not our choice. The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.

  Sophy Burnham

  Writing, Eye, Choices

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• Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

  William Hanes Ayres

  Flying, Hearing, Problem

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• I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

  Paula Danziger

  Printed Word, Feels

  Paula Danziger (2006). “The Cat Ate My Gymsuit”, p.18, Penguin

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Waiting, Soul, Cameras

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• There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

  Geoffrey Nunberg

  Book, Two, Democracy

  Geoffrey Nunberg (2009). “The Years of Talking Dangerously”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Ideas, Numbers, Quality

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Vacation, Comic

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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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 poor countries and poor people around?

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Country, People, Paper

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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• If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist.

  Jay Asher

  Writing, Scary, Littles

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Two, Would Be

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