Selectric Typewriter Quotes & Sayings

What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Round the World! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us. — Herman Melville

The poet's life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We're hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both. — Eileen Myles

I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored. — Tituss Burgess

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. — Sidney Poitier

With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.' — Kenneth Branagh

Chemical manufacturers are responsible for reporting any potential problems they discover about these products. This makes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chemical risk management dependent on information volunteered by industry, and industry has little incentive to look for damning problems or to disclose all it knows. — Nena Baker

Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second. — Cassandra Clare

We're friends. Remember, we have the right to bore each other every now and then. — Holly Chamberlin

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. — Mahatma Gandhi

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains ... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree ... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. — Marcus Aurelius

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. — Dean Koontz

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. — Antisthenes