Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Miuccia Prada

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

R. L. Stine

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

Kristen Wiig

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

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a rather decisive type.

Luke Wilson

I don't really have a type of woman.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Freddie Highmore

I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

Fran Lebowitz

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

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.

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.

Ray Bradbury

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

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.

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.

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.

Alex Rodriguez

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

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.

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.

Maura Tierney

I'm not really the nurturer type.

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.