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A moral coward, you see, is simply someone who has read the fine print on the back of his Birth Certificate and seen the little clause which says "You can't win."
kyril bonfiglioli— Something Nasty in the Woodshed (1976), ch. 16.
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman (1892). "III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme". Complete Prose Works. Philadelphia: David McKay. p. 324.
These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.
scott adams— The Dilbert Principle (1995)
Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed.
pat condell— YouTube video (April 25, 2007; from YouTube)
And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
— 1915 'Song of Defeat'.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
(Adeline) Virginia ne e Stephen Woolf— 1925 The Common Reader,'The Modern Essay'.
We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
uwe boll— About getting Postal rated Uwe Boll - Transforming Games into Movies
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
brian kernighan— "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
james howard kunstler— Chapter 30, p. 146
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
norman mailer— "First Advertisement for Myself"
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful faceTime’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
robert montgomery— The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control / Stops with the shore", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, stanza 179.
Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
joe satriani— As quoted in Luminous Flesh Giants Tour Itinerary booklet (1995)
I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.
john steinbeck— Pt. 2 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;And left the flushed print in a poppy there:Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Francis Thompson— The Poppy.
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
tom waits— "Step Right Up", Small Change (1976)
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
elbert hubbard— p. 142 (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927))
The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.
harold innis— Industrialism and Cultural Values p.138.
For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
Charles Lamb— Letter to Coleridge (August 6, 1800)
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larry wall— Usenet article <199806191536.IAA19013@wall.org> (1998)
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
john mortimer— John Mortimer, in Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life (1982), p. 183.
When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
— Laurence J. Peter , Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), ISBN 0-688-03217-6, p. 418.
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
— Hannen Swaffer, "Swaff": The Life and Times of Hannen Swaffer (1974), p. 28.
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.
robert montgomery— Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part I, Stanza 20.
Jacob Leupold (1674-1727) German engineer who collected, for the first time in print, the basic principles of mechanical engineering.
— Neil Schlager (2000) Science and Its Times: 1700-1799. p. 446
O'er the smooth enamell'd green Where no print of step hath been.
john milton— John Milton, Arcades.
Cybernetics is still headline news, and increasingly we hear about its applications to new fields of scientific and industrial endeavour. Stafford Beer's new book Cybernetics and Management is an admirable account on the relation that exist between cybernetics and the problems of management in industry [and]... covers a range of applications that have not previously been dealt with in print.
— F.H. George (1960) "Automatic controls in industry" in: New Scientist. 7 jan 1960. p.48
The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: any citizen thus may speak, write, print freely, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law.
— Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), Article XI
print it as it stands beautifully.
Henry James— The Death of the Lion (1894)
print it as it stands beautifully.
— The Death of the Lion (1894)
