Typographical Quotes

#1. Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

Stefan Emunds

#3. That's why I should drive the bulldozer," Desi said. "Brains, beauty, and pizza.

Nora Olsen

#4. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#5. It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#6. The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

John Updike

#7. Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Bret Easton Ellis

#8. All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

Deb Caletti

#9. Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

Lynne Truss

#10. It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,

Mark Hoppus

#11. We were raised Methodists," Sue said. "But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn't time for both."
"War is hell," Ed deadpanned. "And it just might send us there.

Tony Horwitz

#12. Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

El Lissitzky

#13. There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

Patricia Highsmith

#14. It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket.

Soseki Natsume

#15. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

Gerald Vann

#16. The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#17. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams

#18. The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

Evan Esar

#19. Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page ... Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

William Zinsser

#20. I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

Pritam Chakraborty

#21. The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

Barton Gellman

#22. If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

Evo Morales

#23. Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Scott Westerfeld

#24. [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

Dorothy Parker