Typographical Error Quotes

#1. The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

John Updike

#2. Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Bret Easton Ellis

#3. The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

Evan Esar

#4. Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page ... Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

William Zinsser

#5. The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

Barton Gellman

#6. [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

Dorothy Parker

#7. His lips covered hers and turned potent and possessive. His mouth tasted of berries, honey, and a tang of whisky. It was a combination a woman could succumb to without a moment's hesitation - succumb to and be seduced by.

Vonnie Davis

#8. It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

Graham Swift

#9. A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

Robin Hobb

#10. I'd been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair.

Kristen Ashley

#11. There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Leon Battista Alberti

#12. The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

Louie Giglio

#13. I was afraid," she said, "and I wanted to hear your voice.

Lauren Gilley

#14. I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

Megan Amram