Printed Quotes

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

Much is published, but little printed.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

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

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.