Typewriter Quotes - page 5

This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard. (Tom Robbins)
At the typewriter you find out who you are. View quote
Tom Robbins
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. View quote
Francine Pascal
(Sylvia at typewriter) "Superwoman." The definition is 1. A woman who has supernatural powers and uses them to fight evil. 2. A woman who has supernatural powers and uses them to combine a family and a career. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) What is Newt Gingrich's Real Name? 1) Newton Minnow 2) Fig Newton 3) Isaac Newton 4) Wayne Newton. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) The best place to discuss your sexual dissatisfaction with your partner is 1) in the bedroom 2) in a car, traveling at high speed 3) in a crowded elevator. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) Common misunderstandings of young married couples. (Young husband to tearful wife) Jeannie, when I said that your dinner tasted like airplane food, that was meant as a compliment. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) For feminine protection, every day use a hand grenade. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) On Getting Old in America. By Sylvia. Page One. 1. Best to do it somewhere else. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) In the heat of the moment, I said a lot of unforgiveable things. Please call me. I've thought of a few more. (Nicole Hollander)
(Sylvia at typewriter) A lady never offers a new lover a complimentary tooth brush, razor and sewing kit the next morning. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Cartoon title) Don't throw that old diaphragm away! (Sylvia at typewriter) Because it can be used as: 1. Doorknob cover (no need to worry about fingerprints ever again) 2. Bathtub stopper 3) Rainhat for cat 4. Small frisbee. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Woman at typewriter) Dear Syl, . . . Is nothing forever? (Sylvia) Red wine on a white couch. View quote
Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia at typewriter) I feel much lighter now that I've given up my civil liberties. I recommend it to everyone! View quote
Nicole Hollander
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, Here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, Here is a list of today's appointments, And all the flies in all the ointments, The daily woes that a man endures --Take them, George, they're yours. View quote
Ogden Nash
Marina was about eight years older than my sister Tencha, so this made her about eighteen years older than me. She was presently a reporter for the New York Times. When she was in high school, she'd won the Underwood Typewriter typing contest, doing well over a hundred words a minute without a single mistake, setting a national record. She attributed her fast hands to her cotton-picking days as a young girl in Scottsdale, Arizona. View quote
Victor Villaseñor
He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter. View quote
William McKeen
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper. View quote
Barry Lopez
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) View quote
Larry Wall
Burgess worked all day, chain-smoking small cigars and producing 1,000 words a day at a large architect's table - a word processor for his journalism, a typewriter for the fiction... ...went home, did the kitchen, spring-cleaned the flat, wrote two book reviews, a flute concerto and a film treatment, knocked off his gardening column for Pravda, phoned in his surfing page to the Sydney Morning Herald, and then test-drove a kidney dialysis machine for El Pais before settling down to some serious work. (Anthony Burgess)
Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile. View quote
Vannevar Bush
I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute - two fingers - I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump its memory - I don't lose a book. View quote
Harlan Ellison
I never keep a fixed schedule. I like to write for a while, move around, read, drink something, come back. But when I've entered the world of the novel, that demands more concentration. It's hard to even write a letter, because it means leaving that world. To put aside the typewriter and take out letter paper, or stop because you have to pay the phone bill, is terrible... View quote
Reinaldo Arenas
If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. View quote
Tom Robbins