Quotes for All
I didn’t think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I’d written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over … Read more
In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure of compounded interest to be paid in gold at a future date, failed to raise more than about half the needed amount. So the Union faced a real dilemma. The … Read more
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. Evan Davis
A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints all the news that’s fit to print. But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, That’s the way it is, as Walter Cronkite does. Eugene McCarthy
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency. Eugene McCarthy
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints … Read more
I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children’s books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people … Read more
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise. Erik Naggum
Even if you’ve written something for print, I think it’s good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it’s hilarious and they can tell you it’s not. Eric Idle