Top 38 Typist Quotes

#1. Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

Vito Acconci

Typist Quotes #898
#2. On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.

Emilia Fox

Typist Quotes #30215
#3. I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Michael Schwab

Typist Quotes #105199
#4. 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

Typist Quotes #190908
#5. Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

Alistair Begg

Typist Quotes #277726
#6. My choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

Nina Berberova

Typist Quotes #303575
#7. I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Kevin J. Anderson

Typist Quotes #326237
#8. I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Jimmy Carter

Typist Quotes #366804
#9. The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Nelson Mandela

Typist Quotes #368297
#10. The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

Seth Godin

Typist Quotes #389740
#11. You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Christy Hall

Typist Quotes #401813
#12. Some things never changed.

Hope Ann

Typist Quotes #543691
#13. You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

Typist Quotes #585107
#14. Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!

Stephen Richards

Typist Quotes #588410
#15. The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

A.J.P. Taylor

Typist Quotes #653787
#16. I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

Bobby Sherman

Typist Quotes #676221
#17. The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

Michael Gove

Typist Quotes #788181
#18. My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

Robert Wilson

Typist Quotes #871917
#19. I'm a horrible typist. That's why I became a writer.

Glenn Hefley

Typist Quotes #927764
#20. She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

Meg Rosoff

Typist Quotes #942262
#21. I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

Chris Colfer

Typist Quotes #1039845
#22. Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

Corinne Maier

Typist Quotes #1042355
#23. The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.

Colin Cunningham

Typist Quotes #1126777
#24. I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Typist Quotes #1184529
#25. Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

Elvis Costello

Typist Quotes #1292926
#26. the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

George E. Tinker

Typist Quotes #1412006
#27. You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.

Vito Acconci

Typist Quotes #1422427
#28. A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then.

Charles Bukowski

Typist Quotes #1422610
#29. There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.

Mike Hargrove

Typist Quotes #1445650
#30. I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

James Dashner

Typist Quotes #1491679
#31. I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

Shelley Hennig

Typist Quotes #1546284
#32. That's the weirdest thing, by the way. That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. Cops, teachers, parents, hot girls, pro ballers, everybody. For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them.

Matt De La Pena

Typist Quotes #1588776
#33. Yes, Ronaldinho is bigger than me. Exactly 4 centimeters.

Pele

Typist Quotes #1660214
#34. I don't write the books --I am merely the typist.

Anne Carmichael

Typist Quotes #1746894
#35. (I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)

Charles Stross

Typist Quotes #1765062
#36. Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

Philip Toshio Sudo

Typist Quotes #1813232
#37. On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Typist Quotes #1858754
#38. One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

Karl Kraus

Typist Quotes #1869732

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