Short Typed Quotes & Sayings

Most people can't stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid. — Ann Aguirre

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one. — Paul Beatty

Rats live on no evil star — Anne Sexton

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Half the places I have been to, never were. I make things up. Half the things I say are there cannot be found. When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself."
"But why?"
"I thought the tale of treasure might be true."
"You said you made it up."
"I know I did, but then I didn't know I had. I forget things, too. — James Thurber

Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..! — K. Hari Kumar

He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950's, he was employed for Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported back to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, "The horse jumped over the fucking fence," and walked out, self-employed again. — Mark Vonnegut

Their words flitted past, like short sentences typed out on a keyboard, typing away Yosop's past and future. They all said "American troops," but Yosop knew for a fact that the troops had simply been passing through. They were never stationed in Sinchon; they were in a rush to get further north. Both Yosop and his brother Yohan knew for a fact that during those forty-five days, before the arrival of the U.S. troops and after their departure, most of the military strength in the area had consisted of the security forces and the Youth Corps - all Korean. (2007: 99) — Hwang Sok-yong

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness. — Eckhart Tolle

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk. — David Cameron

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories. — Carl Reiner

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen. — Hilary Mantel

It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more. — Brian Staveley