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typewriters years space
David Sedaris My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.
typewriters bangs form
Nora Ephron I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
typewriters mind kind
Paddy Chayefsky The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
typewriters hands worship
Pablo Neruda The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
typewriters use asks
Man Ray You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
typewriters novelists poet
Billy Collins While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
typewriters chaos sickness
Charles Bukowski take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
typewriters
Charles Bukowski Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
cities cultural deeply dynamic fantastic flock nor people replaced seductive sorts useful
Clive Thompson I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
cities disaster far happily love moved nature people
Alice Walker I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
cities collective flourishes irrational madness man modern needs producing
Gore Vidal Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
cities keen love mere permitted pilgrimage seldom travel visit
Paramahansa Yogananda My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
cities emergency manage present
James McIntyre We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.
cities fan horror maybe seen
Victor LaValle As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
cities citizens planning
Le Corbusier The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
cities waiting house
Le Corbusier Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
cities obvious people pile qualms seemed towns useless
Alexis Wright When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.
scotch once-upon-a-time stories
Mickey Rooney Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
scotch littles come-up
Mae West Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
scotch quality horizon
Dirk Benedict I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
scotch void humour
Horace Walpole The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
scotch blood half
Tom Waits I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
scotch-whisky three whiskey
Tommy Cooper I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
scotch vodka
Jim Leyland I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.
scotch alcohol bars
E. B. White Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.
scotch next slippery-slope
Stephen Colbert Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and, before you know it, Jager tainting.