Best 43 quotes in «handwriting quotes» category

I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.

Handwriting enables civilization.

Handwriting is a spiritual designing, even though it appears by means of a material instrument.

Handwriting is the garden of the sciences.

How is your handwriting?” I ask. “Do you write in pencil or pen?” They stare back at me with squinting eyes and a look that needs no words. “Get with it granddad.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen your handwriting before. It’s an oddly personal thing, isn’t it?

...in India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know your hand - it fits so well in mine ...

Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

It's old-school to write by hand, but Jess likes the way the words blossom under her fingertips [. . .] These scribblings and imaginings are for no one else.

I see you are reading a sad story," Mother said sympathetically to the now less-than-august lady, though privately she wondered how you could sleep with a man with such bad handwriting.

I squint to decipher his scratchy boy writing.

I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.

Max never intended to be messy with his writing, which he could read just fine, years later if necessary, even if his teachers couldn’t. He merely found that his active mind tended to move too fast for his hand to keep up with.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

The quill swirled and lunged over the page, in a slow but relentless three steps forward, two steps back sort of process and finally came to a full stop in a tiny pool of its own ink. Then, Louis Phelypeaux, First Compte de Pontchartrain, raised the nib, let it hover for an instant, as if gathering his forces, and hurled it backwards along the sentence, tiptoeing over “i’s” and slashing through “t’s” and “x’s” nearly tripping over an umlaut, building speed and confidence while veering through a slalom course of acute and grave accents, pirouetting through cedillas and carving vicious snap-turns through circumflexes. It was like watching the world’s greatest fencing master dispatch twenty opponents with a single continuous series of maneuvers.

The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

When the character of a person is not clear to me, i look at their handwriting.

To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets. Dozens and dozens of them. Booklets made of ordinary sheets of white writing paper, folded in half, and hand-stitched along the spine. Booklets in remarkably pristine condition, all covered in a small, neat handwriting that I instantly recognized. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. I could hardly breathe.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).