Typographically Speaking Quotes

#1. Katie had a grandmother who was a man-eater and a father who was a lothario. What chance did she have of being decent and honest and kind? She'd kissed two girls and one boy in the space of a few weeks, so these things were clearly genetic.

Jenny Downham

#2. A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

George Herbert

#3. I may be crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill.

Gregory Hill

#4. I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Patricia Richardson

#5. To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

#6. After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Theodore Bikel

#7. People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

John Dos Passos

#8. It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

Christopher Buckley