Type Quotes - Page 9

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

What type of legacy do you want to leave?

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

I'm just a cool type of guy who's all about positives.

I am a melancholy type of person.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.