Goudy Quotes & Sayings

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk ... Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys. — Damon Albarn

The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury. — Morgan Rhodes

I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun — Nacho LIbre

Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it. — M.J. Rose

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name. — Frederic Goudy

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep. — Frederic Goudy

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. — Frederic Goudy

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well . — Robert Bringhurst

All the old fellows stole our best ideas. — Frederic Goudy

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed. — Eric Maskin

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep. — Frederic Goudy

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal. — Paul Harvey

MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up. — Charles Portis

His beauty was his true vocation — Jack Fritscher

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night! — Peter C. Doherty

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all. — Frederic Goudy