David > David's Quotes

“In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
― Frank Delaney, Shannon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring