Printing Quotes

• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Technology, Digital Revolution

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• Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Century, Equal

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

  John Milton

  Blood, Ink, Presses

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• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Book, Reading

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

  Ezra Pound

  Literature, Pay, Has Beens

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• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Children, Book, Reading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Essentials, Finals

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

  Neil Postman

  Forever, Identity, Links

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.161, Vintage

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• Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Events, Gutenberg

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• The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

  Mary Antin

  Father, Tin Cans, Cooking

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

  Horace Mann

  Girl, Art, School

  "Printing and Paper Making". The Common School Journal Vol. V, No. 3, February 1, 1843.

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• Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Past, Problem

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gun, Civilization, Religion

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "The State of German Literature" (1838)

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• I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

  Matthew Lesko

  New York, Book, Government

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• And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Men, Looks

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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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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• It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

  Frederick Douglass

  White, Light, Black

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• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Cases, Gray

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.16, NYU Press

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• Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

  William Cowper

  Art, Eye, Cheat

  William Cowper, John Bruce (F.S.A.) (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.49

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• He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Kings, Army

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Teacher, Teaching, Tools

  "Fred Friendly's Faith In The Constitution" by Nat Hentoff, www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 1998.

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• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  Dudley Nichols

  Break Up, Uprising, Rebellion

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• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  Ted Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Space

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