Treadle Quotes

#1. Key to women's ascent was the typewriter. Invented in 1867 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the original model was decorated with floral decals and mounted on a treadle table, like a sewing machine; promoters proclaimed it perfect for a woman's "nimble fingers.

Kate Bolick

#2. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Edward Sapir

#3. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

Frederick Lenz

#4. There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

Michael Bloomberg

#5. The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory output.'
What? Oh. Well

'I continued to lecture a bit more, to disguise the fact that I was getting my ass handed to me by my dog.

Kevin Hearne

#6. Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

Alan D. Eames

#7. After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.

Brian Geraghty

#8. As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

Lily Collins

#9. I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Thomas Heatherwick

#10. Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

Rita Dove

#11. The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

Jon J. Muth

#12. Your tears are my prayers.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

David Levithan

#14. Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Edward Everett

#15. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.