Linotype Quotes

#1. There were voices on the other side - eldritch voices, the sort of voices that mere typography will remain totally unable to convey until someone can make a linotype machine with echo-reverb and, possibly, a typeface that looks like something said by a slug.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.

Harper Lee

#4. Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.

John O'Hara

#5. The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

Joanne Greenberg

#7. As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#8. Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

Cleobulus

#10. I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

Kola Boof

#11. I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.

Robin M. Helm

#12. When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.

Deepak Chopra

#13. Terrible was ... He was a miracle in a world without miracles, and she couldn't believe her luck. And there was nothing, absolutely fucking nothing, that she wouldn't do to keep him in her life. Because without him it wouldn't be a life at all.

Stacia Kane

#14. It was a tradition for Frau Holtzapfel, one of their neighbors, to spit on the Hubermanns' door every time she walked past. The front door was only meters from the gate, and let's just say that Frau Holtzapfel had the distance - and the accuracy.

Markus Zusak

#15. I'm incredibly lazy!

Joaquin Phoenix

#16. I cry, because I know what I felt from him, even if I cannot and dare not allow it be named.

Jasinda Wilder

#17. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

#18. In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.

Henry Sy