Beatrice Warde Quotes

#1. Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

Benton MacKaye

#2. In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Al Yankovic

#3. Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

Beatrice Warde

#4. There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Beatrice Warde

#5. In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#6. I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.

Ezra Miller

#7. Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

Beatrice Warde

#8. I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

J. Paul Getty

#9. Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.

Stacey Lee

#10. I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

David Blunkett

#11. People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

Beatrice Warde

#12. There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

Beatrice Warde

#13. I am longing for you in life and in death
As the moon is longing for night
and life is longing for breath

Debasish Mridha

#14. You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Evgeny Morozov

#15. Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

Louis B. Mayer

#16. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

#17. The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future.

Stephen King

#18. Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

Beth Brooke

#19. Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Beatrice Warde

#20. Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#21. After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco ...

Jeffrey Eugenides