Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Amis

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

Molly Ringwald

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

Paul Gray

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

R. L. Stine

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Luke Wilson

I don't really have a type of woman.

Miuccia Prada

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

Kristen Wiig

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

J. K. Rowling

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Keira Knightley

Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.

Kim Harrison

She's not your type. Since when do I have a type?

There's always going to be short-term fluctuations. But we think they're going to do well in all types of markets.

Ray Bradbury

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Sean Covey

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Skrillex

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Siobhan Fahey

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

Nora Ephron

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Paddy Chayefsky

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Pablo Neruda

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Maura Tierney

I'm not really the nurturer type.

Marvin Minsky

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Theodore White

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

Derek Anderson

I just know this is the type of place you could do that,

Sara Gruen

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.

I'm just not the type who wants to draw attention to himself.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Alex Rodriguez

You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division,

Eric Hoffer

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

You can't even look and see where you're at. It's got to be a catch-and-go type of thing.

Thomas Pynchon

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.