Printing Plate

Famous quotes containing the words printing and/or plate:

“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Then he rang the bell and ordered a ham sandwich. When the maid placed the plate on the table, he deliberately looked away but as soon as the door had shut, he grabbed the sandwich with both hands, immediately soiled his fingers and chin with the hanging margin of fat and, grunting greedily, began to much.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)