Printed Quotes

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

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

I would always want printed books.

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.