Typed Out Quotes

#1. My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

Stephen Root

#2. I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read.

Alice Sebold

#3. My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Jack Adams

#4. Miss u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
Want u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
OK, he sent back, and wondered stupidly if Ben would try and discern any hidden meaning in those two tiny letters.

Lisa Henry

#5. I'll just mention to her that you called her 'the little woman' and she can take care of you the next time she sees you. It was nice knowing you." Adam typed out a quick reply to the text message.

Brenna Aubrey

#6. 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

#7. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Jake Friend

#8. I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Shonda Rhimes

#9. Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

Boris Karloff

#10. One morning I remember pulling out a small card and threading it through my typewriter. Among the words that I typed [ ... ] were these: The simple secret is this: put your trust in the Lord, do your best, then leave the rest to Him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#11. I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

Neil Farber

#12. I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Robert Preston

#13. Just trying to get a visual of you on the beach in Spain ...
How's that working out for you?
Pretty spiffy.
Spiffy? Did you just say spiffy?
I typed it actually. You got something against spiffy?

Alice Clayton

#14. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

Margaret Mead

#15. The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

Sue Grafton

#16. I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Gene Hackman

#17. I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?

Juliet Cook

#18. Time travel is awesome ... And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it ... The first time.

Craig Benzine

#19. each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.

Kati Marton

#20. On that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

Stephen Chbosky

#21. would I be proud to wear my typed words on a t-shirt in public for the next hundred years?

Erik Qualman

#22. One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

Luise Rainer

#23. If you have ever typed 'sorry not sorry' I hope you die ... not sorry.

Daniel Tosh

#24. Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

Lemony Snicket

#25. She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35

Adam Sisman

#26. I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

Eleanor Catton

#27. I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

Carly Fiorina

#28. What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

Larry Ellison

#29. I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Alan Furst

#30. I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Alfred Hitchcock

#31. He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest], and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. But a really fast finger.

David Lipsky

#32. The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster -- it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.

Gwenda Bond

#33. The effort flops like a just-caught fish inside her. A brief burst of possibility as the name is typed onto the screen, as she clicks to activate the search. Hope thrashing in the process of turning cold.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#34. Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

David Dark

#35. As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

Robert Englund

#36. I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

Jack Kerouac

#37. I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

Ginger Rogers

#38. She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.

Parmy Olson

#39. I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Eric Alterman

#40. I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

Nelson DeMille

#41. I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Janet Weiss

#42. Leslie Titmuss bothered me. His name, it made me want to sneeze. I also thought I recognized it. I typed it into my laptop, a procedure that had lately held far too much suspense for me. Among the top results the search returned was a page from GoodReads, a literary website.

Walter Kirn

#43. As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

Daniel Sunjata

#44. I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Lauren Willig

#45. The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

Jilly Cooper

#46. Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.

Chris Pratt

#47. The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Jim Harrison

#48. Sometimes I look back at what I just typed and truly question if there is a disconnect between my brain and fingers that I should be concerned with.

C.E. Kilgore

#49. It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

Sal Mineo

#50. I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Chaim Potok

#51. She had fat fingered the sext! It was beyond awkward. Frantically, she typed in an apology, "Ned, meant to send boob photo to someone else. So sorry. Nice ass.

Samantha Bohrman

#52. Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Dylan Thomas

#53. I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

#54. The mind is not sex-typed.

Margaret Mead