Printing Quotes

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Before, Equal, Thousand

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

Religion, Great, Gun

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

Everybody, Except, Press

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. Lawrence

Greatest, Modern, Press

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

Same, Few, Process

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
Arthur Laffer

Money, Government, Done

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly

Greatest, Story, Since

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher

Greatest, Sometimes, Blessing

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Nate Silver

Before, Times, Ideas

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.
Dudley Nichols

Break, Rebellion, Presses

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

Work, Age, Children

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver

Before, Books, Press

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound

Nothing, Against, Worth

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
Dave Eggers

Mean, Said, Books

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Dave Eggers

Easy, Started, Books

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

Consider, Effect, Final

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

Work, Time, Another

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
Lev Grossman

Love, Book, Same

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
Lev Grossman

Age, Writing, Country

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion

Cool, Book, Passion

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

Government, Book, Times

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Carol Burnett

Love, Moving, Writing

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.
Geraldine Brooks

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips

War, Mind, Done

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
Joshua Foer

Human, Made, Last

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.
Ray Dalio

Money, Beautiful, Done

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
Alan Sugar

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Gary Locke

History, Economic, Press

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
Bill Keller

Technology, Price, Press

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

Society, American, Year

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