Typing Quotes

• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Communication, Skills

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 13, 2011

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing

  Quoted in New Republic, 9 Feb. 1959

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Way, Littles

  15 Copy quote

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  Jack Adams

  Tests, Newton, Staff

  15 Copy quote

• Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Years, Use, Literature

  13 Copy quote

• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  John Sayles

  Character, Plot, Needs

  13 Copy quote

• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  13 Copy quote

• Typing is no substitute for thinking.

  Richard Hamming

  Thinking, Substitutes

  "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Keys, Naked

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reading, Mind, World

  26 Copy quote

• I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

  Bill Gates

  Phones, People, Messages

  3 Copy quote

• I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

  Carol Burnett

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  10 Copy quote

• I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

  John Green

  Book, Keys, Passionate

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Hands, Use, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Favour, Form

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

  Joe Haldeman

  Memories, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Learning

  322 Copy quote

• 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

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

  1 Copy quote

• I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Views, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.134, Harmony

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Like Her, Receptionists

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bingo!! Once again, privatization--*total* privatization--is the best solution. Get government, and government-sanctioned business collectives, out of the health 'care' picture entirely and, just maybe, I can go back to typing the word 'care' (in relation to 'health') without the quotes. :-)

  Edward Britton

  Government, Care, Bingo

  3 Copy quote

• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

  15 Copy quote

• Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Real, Iphone, Keys

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Voice, Emotion

  1 Copy quote