Frederic Goudy Quotes

#1. Another day, another pair of underpants.

Jo Huxster

#2. 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

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

Frederic Goudy

#4. What you see as a crisis, God sees as an opportunity for growth. What you see as humiliating, He sees as an occasion for the development of humble leadership. It is all in how you see it. What is your perspective?

Myles Munroe

#5. All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Frederic Goudy

#6. The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

George Stephenson

#7. The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Aristotle.

#8. Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Frederic Goudy

#9. Words are real when we write them down. Taking the time to make them permanent makes them real.

Anna Todd

#10. I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.

Waylon H. Lewis

#11. I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Graham Nelson

#12. Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

Frederic Goudy

#13. Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Jeremy Bentham

#14. I'm into short emails.

Denis McDonough

#15. Draw a breath,
a deep breath,
now hold it, my friends,
hold it long
for the world
the world drowns.

Steven Erikson

#16. 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

#17. So you take her to the pictures,
trying to become a fixture.
Inch by inch trying to reach her,
all the way through the second feature.
Worrying about your physical fitness,
tell me how you got this sickness?

Elvis Costello

#18. Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

Frederic Goudy