Famous Quotes & Sayings

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

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.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Robert Stone

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.

Thomas Pynchon

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

Graham Greene

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Godfrey Reggio

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

Eric Church

I'm not a trust-fund type.

Francine Pascal

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

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

Kurt Warner

It's a different type of mentality, and here I have a lot on my shoulders,

Jon Gruden

It was always a square-fist-in-the-mouth type of game.

Gregg Troy

It's going to be in that type of ballpark.

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

That's not him. He's not that type of guy.

Lindy Ruff

It's the type of win you have to muster up with the injuries.

Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

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?

Tracy McGrady

He can be that type of player, 20 and 10, without a doubt, without a doubt. He's unbelievable.

J. K. Rowling

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Ian Hart

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

If he (Haskins) was not that type of person, it would have never worked.

Howard Rheingold

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Olivia De Havilland

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

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.

Man Ray

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

Joan Didion

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the 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.

Lynn Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.