Ibm Selectric Quotes

#1. I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

#2. My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

Gary Reilly

#3. Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

Margaret Atwood

#4. Hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person, You're not hurting the guy, only yourself.

Gena Showalter

#5. No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.

Mark McGinty

#6. A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge
an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation.

Fumiko Enchi

#7. So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.

Junius Williams

#8. I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

Jerry West

#9. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Gene Wolfe

#10. I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven't come together. More stories like that need to be explored.

Nimrat Kaur

#11. It has been my dream since I was just a little kid to play in the NFL ... I can't tell you how excited I am for this dream to come true.

Mark Sanchez

#12. Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

Sheryl Crow

#13. Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

Rick Warren

#14. Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ?

Orson Scott Card