Printed Quotes

• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Writing, Wheat Fields

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

  George Orwell

  News, Want, Advertising

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• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  Saint Augustine

  Interesting, Action, Christianity

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• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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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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• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Teacher, Book

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• For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

  Olivier Zahm

  Memories, Leaving, Today

  Source: wwd.com

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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

  E. W. Howe

  Lying, Deceit, Detest

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• My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Book, Lasts, My Favorite

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• I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

  Leona Lewis

  Tabloids, Knows, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

  Stacy London

  Looks, Texture, Forget

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• The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

  George Lucas

  Book, Princess, Views

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• Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

  Demetri Martin

  Wise, Aprons

  "This Is A Book". Book by Demetri Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2011.

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• Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Hollywood, Etch A Sketch

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• The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

  Patrick Henry

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

  Christopher Moore

  Turtles, Sharks, Sea

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

  Carol Burnett

  Life, Writing, Learning

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• She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

  Jane Hamilton

  Book, Anchors, Might

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• 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.

  Mervyn Peake

  Printed Word, Black, Sound

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.230, The Overlook Press

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• As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

  George Will

  Communication, Noise, Normal

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, Reading, Printed Word

  "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert, 2007.

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• Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Doe, Stories

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Kansas City

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• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  Lady Gregory

  Book, Teaching, Childhood

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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