Goudy Quotes

#1. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

David Levithan

#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. 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

#4. I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.

Rene Daumal

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

Frederic Goudy

#6. I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.

Colin Farrell

#7. Maybe it's information the whitecoats never wanted anyone to figure out.' Fang said in the hollow Twilight Zone-y voice he used sometimes when things got unusually weird- as opposed to regular weird.

James Patterson

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

Frederic Goudy

#9. At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

D. Elton Trueblood

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

Frederic Goudy

#11. Some Disney character crawled up her ass and put her in this mood. I just hope she doesn't have to have some sort of bibbidi-bobbidi-boo to get them out. Although, a Fantasia-like

Meghan Quinn

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

Frederic Goudy

#13. But even the coldest hate can shift into something warmer if given enough time, just as an ugly caterpillar can turn into a beautiful butterfly.

Morgan Rhodes

#14. The old man said, " The house is talking to us." "What's it saying?" David said. Jesse said, "It's hungry.

Robert Liparulo

#15. 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

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

Frederic Goudy