Compositor Quotes & Sayings

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. — Ambrose Bierce

That so few understand me is why I am treasured. — Laozi

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles. — Robert Bringhurst

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story. — Jill Soloway

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. — George Bernard Shaw

Without oil the axle soon grows hot, and accidents occur; and if there be not a holy cheerfulness to oil our wheels, our spirits will be clogged with weariness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me. — Terry Venables

This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I swear blindly that I mean to live only for his sake and his family, with wet lips I try to placate him--and deep down in me lies the hope that I may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even get out of this; it is a little stratagem: if only I am allowed to escape, then I will see to it. So I open the book and read slowly:--Gerard Duval, compositor.

With the dead man's pencil write the address on an envelope, then swiftly thrust everything back into his tunic.

I have killed the printer, Gerard Duval. I must be a printer, I think confusedly, be a printer, printer... — Erich Maria Remarque

I wonder if I loved him because I thought no one like you would ever come along. — Vee Hoffman

This world is like a big classroom, and USA is the teacher, while other countries are the students, as one student tries to mess with the teacher, or does something really bad. The teacher shall teach him a nice lesson. Use your brain before you try to mess with the odds. — Barack Obama

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living. — Constantin Stanislavski

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion — Elbert Hubbard