Typewriters Quotes

• I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Night
  • Computer
  • Masking

• I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • House
  • Used
  • Aunt

• ONE OF THE first things the Nazis did was to distribute 100,000 free radio sets to the Austrian Christians. Where did they get these radios? From us, of course. Right after the Anschluss, the Jews were required to turn in their typewriters and their radios, the idea being that if we could not communicate with each other or the outside world, we would be isolated and more easily terrorized and manipulated. It was a good idea. It worked well.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Radio
  • Communicate
  • Christians

• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hand
  • Poetry
  • Hands

• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep

• Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Long
  • Crafts
  • Typewriters

• There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Computers
  • Guitar Playing
  • Paragraphs

• I like the sound a typewriter makes.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Sound
  • Typewriters

• History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

  

  Wolfgang Schauble
  • Prayer
  • Temptation
  • Dissertation

• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Opportunity
  • Profession
  • Irreplaceable

• If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Ends

• My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

  

  William Maxwell
  • Children
  • Daughter
  • Rooms

• I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Computer
  • Typewriters

• I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Computer
  • Minutes

• There is a premium on conformity, and on silence. Enthusiasm is frowned upon, since it is likely to be noisy. The Admiral had caught a few kids who came to school before class, eager to practice on the typewriters. He issued a manifesto forbidding any students in the building before 8:20 or after 3:00—outside of school hours, students are "unauthorized." They are not allowed to remain in a classroom unsupervised by a teacher. They are not allowed to linger in the corridors. They are not allowed to speak without raising a hand. They are not allowed to feel too strongly or to laugh too loudly. Yesterday, for example, we were discussing "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars/ But in ourselves that we are underlings." I had been trying to relate Julius Caesar to their own experiences. Is this true? I asked. Are we really masters of our fate? Is there such a thing as luck? A small boy in the first row, waving his hand frantically: "Oh, call on me, please, please call on me!" was propelled by the momentum of his exuberant arm smack out of his seat and fell on the floor. Wild laughter. Enter McHabe. That afternoon, in my letter-box, it had come to his attention that my "control of the class lacked control.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teacher
  • Silence
  • Students