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Quotes About Lowercase

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.
~ Geoffrey Wood
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .
~ Robert Bringhurst
How could I compete with that? Candies and toys! I had string and glue and some very complicated dynamics going on at my station. I mean, when I was assigned to that table, no one happened to mention that it was a simmering hotbed of political unrest concerning the lower case r. A wicked web indeed.
~ Laurie Notaro
Capitals are called uppercase letters because typesetters would store them in the "upper case." Small letters were kept in the "lower case.
~ Roy Peter Clark
We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.
~ Geoffrey Wood
I have begun to fact-check my e-mail jokes, and my e-mails generally, even though I do not use capital letters or proper punctuation. "we write everything lowercase in order to save time," said Herbert Bayer—herbert bayer—of the Bauhaus school. When I discovered this quote I felt so reassured. I'd always worried that I'd naturally defaulted to lowercase letters because I lacked courage or conviction or a healthy sense of self-worth.
~ Heidi Julavits
Archaeologists often distinguish calibrated from uncalibrated dates by writing the former in upper-case letters and the latter in lower-case letters (for example, 3000 B.C. vs. 3000 B.C., respectively).
~ Jared Diamond
Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.
~ Rita Rudner