Typesetting Quotes & Sayings

Over the bowls of memory where every hollow holds a hallow — James Joyce

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. — Robert Bringhurst

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker. — John Bercow

If there is an essential truism in typesetting, it is that a page contains no voids, only spaces between printed elements. The essence of typesetting is regulating the size of those spaces to control the balance and rhythm between black and white. This is the key to a graphically harmonious page - one with good type color - as well as to text that is pleasing and easy to read. — James Felici

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like. — Mekhi Phifer

The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored. — Billy Graham

Mother Nature does not do bailouts. — Al Gore

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy. — Seth Godin

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring. — Anne Spencer

If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything. — Larry Gelwix

The Vazdru do not weep."
"Who weeps? Not I."
"Every word spoken was a tear. — Tanith Lee