Printing Press Quotes

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press. — Vivian Schiller

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not. — Ron Kaufman

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. — Agnes Strickland

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E.F. Schumacher

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. — William Randolph Hearst

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God. — Howard G. Hendricks

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them. — Jon Stewart

I'm obsessed with horrible movies. — Kreayshawn

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read. — Kevin Systrom

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly. — The Bureau Chiefs

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander. — T.E. Lawrence

The rancid smell of poverty and low-class living had become but a whiff around me. — Cathy Lamb

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. — Ha-Joon Chang

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press. — Sara Sheridan

The freedom of the press should be inviolate. — John Quincy Adams

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Global competition is about winners and losers. — David Korten

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. — Heather Brooke

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do. — Aimee Carter

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf! — Friedrich Kellner

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. — Fred W. Friendly

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. — Trip Hawkins

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t. — Waka Flocka Flame

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. — Richard Whately

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. — Robert Darnton

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. — Bill Keller

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. — John Dos Passos

Ink is the blood of the printing-press. — John Milton

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. — Nate Silver

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. — Marshall McLuhan

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. — Benjamin Disraeli