Platen Typewriter Quotes & Sayings

Glad I coated you with my sweat now. It'll keep the other lions away. — Vi Keeland

I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same. — Rod McKuen

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God. — George H. W. Bush

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle. — Abigail Disney

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist. — Marko Djurdjevic

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it. — George Bernard Shaw

Fear and guilt are sisters; — Shirley Jackson

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen. — Kim Newman

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert. — John Armstrong

If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it. — Beth Moore

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's a beat, and then Garrett surprises me by hauling me in for a hug. Not a macho side hug or quick chest bump, but a real hug, with both his arms around me, gripping me tight.

I hug him back. "I'm sorry, man. About the house. The drinking. Just everything."

"I know," he says for the third time.

A door creaks open. "Is this a private homoerotic moment? Or can anyone join in?"

I laugh weakly as Logan lumbers toward us. Garrett releases me, and Logan takes his place. His hug is briefer, but no less comforting. — Elle Kennedy