Type Quotes - Page 39

• There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

  Paul Reiser

  Two, People

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• Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Axes, Roots

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• there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Sad, Two

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

  Virginia Woolf

  Imagination, Matter, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  People, Sentimental, Serious

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• There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Smell, Funeral, Dying

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• Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

  Stephen Colbert

  Monday, Believe, Home

  Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, www.democracynow.org. May 3, 2006.

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• Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

  Dodie Smith

  Girl, Becky, Insidious

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.134, Random House

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• Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Age, Needs

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• I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

  Russell Brand

  School, Tv Shows, Office

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Things In Life, Important, May

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• A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Hate, Guy, Genius

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Heroic, Womanhood

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.

  Chelsea Handler

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Powerful, Views, Long

  Patricia Hill Collins (1998). “Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice”, p.16, U of Minnesota Press

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• But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, Heart, People

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.271, Macmillan

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• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  Obert Skye

  Dream, Hate, Lying

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• Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.134, Bantam

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• That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

  Sarah Vowell

  Names, Hopeful, Political

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Maturity

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• ... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Orange, Law

  A Clockwork Orange (1962) p. 21

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• I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Betrayal, Exercise, Irritation

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.74, Vintage

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• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  Scarlett Thomas

  Reality, Life Is Like, Stories

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• I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Kitchen, Looks

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