Type Quotes - Page 12

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Is typecasting really a problem?

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.