"When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all."

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Source : Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press

Frederic Goudy

#Running Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Design Quotes

“I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.”

Source : "Post-Racial America? Not Yet, Civil Rights Legend Andrew Young Says" by Devin Dwyer, abcnews.go.com. May 25, 2010.
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.”

Source : "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.
“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”
“We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.”
“Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?”
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
“Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.”
“Life is a continuous process of adjustment.”

Source : Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.185, Mittal Publications

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