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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. -- Ralph Hodgson
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. -- Christian Dior
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. -- Jean Cocteau
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. -- Earl Wilson
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. -- Nelson DeMille
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. -- Patti Smith
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. -- Andrew Greeley
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. -- Steve Carell
Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that 'whoosh' sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot. -- Meghan Daum
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. -- Wes Anderson
Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. -- Lance Morrow
Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. -- Natalie Goldberg
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. -- Ruth Ozeki
Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. -- John Milton
If you can see the handwriting on the wall ... you're on the toilet. -- Redd Foxx
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. -- John Adams
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. -- Henry Moore
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. -- Janet Fitch
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. -- Morris Bender
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. -- Saul Kripke
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. -- Linwood Barclay
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best. -- Lianne La Havas
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism. -- Paul Rand
I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you. -- Roz Chast
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. -- Meghan Markle
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. -- Cecile McLorin Salvant
Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed. -- Grayson Perry
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries. -- Thomas Paine
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. -- Sloane Crosley
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. -- Michael Morpurgo
The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd. -- Kim Swift
I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page. -- Sue Miller
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade. -- Meghan Daum
Write it down in your own handwriting. -- Eugene Ormandy
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem! -- Judy Blume
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart. -- Karl G. Maeser
The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive. -- Rachel Cohn
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. -- Claude Fayette Bragdon
Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower. -- Charles Kingsley
For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. -- W. H. Auden
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting. -- J. Norman Collie
Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. -- Michael Chabon
If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think. -- William Shakespeare
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. -- Adlai Stevenson I
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing. -- Mitch Albom
I have terrible handwriting. Probably because I hold my pen with two chopsticks. I once wrote a love letter that looked more like a portrait of Rasputin. -- Jarod Kintz
I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis. -- Bill Ayers
I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter. -- David Shrigley
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation. -- A. J. P. Taylor
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth. -- Malcolm X
I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing. -- Daniel Dennett
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time. -- Francine Prose
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. -- Robert Stone

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