Printer Quotes

• It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Brain, Hooked

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• There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Artist, Shoes, Boots

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• I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Finals, Want, Way

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• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

  Dave Barry

  Light, Three, Paper

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• I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

  Joanna Southcott

  Writing, Hands

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Winning, Years

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.11, Melville House

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• Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

  Horace Greeley

  Progress, Ink, Newspapers

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• Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.

  Robert Palmer

  World, Addresses, Internet

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• The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Phones, Hands, House

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• I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Firsts, Cost

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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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• The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

  James Boswell

  Connections, Booksellers

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Ink, Paper

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• A blessing on the printer's art!--
  Books are the mentors of the heart.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Art, Book, Blessing

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.56

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• Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Kings, White, Space

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• Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

  Thomas Fuller

  Book, Lost Friendship, Lost

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.162

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• Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Book, Science

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

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• Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ideas, Giving, Soul

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• The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.

  Dave Barry

  God, Paper, Lines

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• No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

  William Carlos Williams

  Errors, History, May

  William Carlos Williams (1956). “In the American Grain”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

  Adoniram Judson

  Religion, Missionary, Christianity

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• Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Facts, Printing

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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• The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.

  Bryan Adams

  Photography, Interesting, Buttons

  "QA: Bryan Adams has shot Michael Jackson and Lindsay Lohan, says his daughter his best subject". Q&A with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2012.

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• There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?

  Bre Pettis

  People, Giving, Tangible

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