Famous quotes containing the words john, nichols, printer, printing and/or book:
“We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our own childhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“This is no time for sentiment. This is war.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“Now William pulled the lever down,
And click-clack went the printing-press.
William was the only printer in town
Who had peeped while the angels undress.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)