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• I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

  Count Basie

  Names, Would Be, Cards

  Count Basie, Albert Murray (1985). “Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie”, Plume

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

  Cory Doctorow

  Reading, Book, Mean

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Glasses, Paper

  Maurice Nicoll (1973). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”

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• Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

  William Hanes Ayres

  Flying, Hearing, Problem

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• ...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Ideas, Numbers, Quality

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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 space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Holy Places, Pages

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

  Eric Sykes

  Book, Said, Print

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• it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

  Gertrude Stein

  Nice, Book, Writing

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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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• 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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• Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Writing, Ladders

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

  Carol Burnett

  Life, Writing, Learning

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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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• President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fake, President, Campaigns

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• Beautiful faces are those that wear —
  It matters little if dark or fair —
  Whole-souled honesty printed there.

  Ellen Palmer Allerton

  Beautiful, Children, Honesty

  "Ellen P. Allerton's Walls of Corn, and Other Poems".

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• It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

  Donal Henahan

  Long, Musician, Gutenberg

  "Music View; Whatever Happened To Spontaneity In Performance?" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 1984.

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• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Change, Wisdom, Prayer

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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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• 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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• 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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