Quotes and Sayings about Printing
"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
(Related: Effect, Printing)
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Religion, Civilization, Printing)
"Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill."
- Charisma Carpenter
(Related: Time, Football)
"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Society, Church)
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
- Douglas Engelbart
(Related: Revolution, Invention, Printing, Writing)
"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."
- Shelby Foote
(Related: Success, Successful, First, Printing)
"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."
- Fred W. Friendly
(Related: Press, Printing, Teaching)
"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."
- Beth Gibbons
(Related: Life, Music, People, Meaning, Printing, Thinking)
"Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Teamwork, Fact, Racing, Road, Training)
"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Civil liberties)
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Books, Invention, Light, Printing, Television)
"Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Society, American, Benefits, English, Printing)
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Press, Printing)
"I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it."
- Tea Leoni
(Related: Walking)
"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
(Related: Government, Bragging, First, Printing, Years)
"The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: War, Debate, First, Nation, Pretty, Printing)
"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."
- John Masefield
(Related: Poetry, Amusement, Being, Community, Delight, Man, Press, Printing)
"I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing."
- Jerry Mathers
(Related: Beauty, Computer, Printing)
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: First, Immortality, Press, Printing, Shakespeare)
"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
- Mark Millar
(Related: American, Now)
"In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect."
- James Nasmyth
(Related: Time, Brothers, Effect, London, Machines, Printing)
"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
(Related: Money, Ideas, Printing, Space)
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
- Dudley Nichols
(Related: Printing, Rebellion)
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Work, Mother, Father, Company, Printing, School)
"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: War, Mind, Press, Printing)
"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Nothing, Printing, Worth)
"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
(Related: Age, Work, Books, Children, Printing, Reading, Routine)
"Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Time, Work, Computer, Printing)
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."
- E. F. Schumacher
(Related: Press, Printing)
"I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time."
- Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Right, Running, Teachers)
"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
(Related: Magic, Moments, Photography, Printing)
"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."
- Peter Sotos
(Related: Books, Past, Printing, Problems)
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Printing, Years)
"I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing."
- Obie Trice
(Related: Music, Mother, Machine, Printing, Years)