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Quotes About Type

There is an English expression: 'high-maintenance girlfriend,' Csongor remarked. Now, of course, Zula is not my girlfriend. Probably never would be, even if all this shit were not happening. And I think that if she were my girlfriend? She would not be high maintenance at all! She is just not that type of girl. However. Because of circumstances, today she is the most high-maintenance girlfriend since Cleopatra.
~ Neal Stephenson
Men of the other type—the ones who use speech as a tool of their work, who are confident and fluent—aren't necessarily more intelligent, or even more educated. It took Shaftoe a long time to figure that out.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and treats secrets as jewels.
~ Neal Stephenson
I suspect you of being one of those dangerous types who innocently give good body language to everyone. The type of girl who should have someone walking 10 paces in front of her with a red flashing light and a clanging bell. Just my type.
~ Neal Stephenson
Youve got all your classic, as you say, murder mysteries and they will continue to appear on our screens. That type of film and TV I dont think will ever go away.
~ Danny John-Jules
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
~ Umberto Eco
The sign is not concerned with that smoke and that fire, but with the possibility of a relationship between antecedent and consequent regulating of any occurrence of the smoke (and of the fire). The sign is type, not occurrence.
~ Umberto Eco
Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
~ Victor Hugo
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
~ Victor Hugo
but never really made an effort to talk to her. Never really felt the need. She wasn't my type, if I even had a type.
~ L. Wilder
Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.
~ Laini Taylor
No eres mi tipo. —Bueno, tú no eres el tipo de nadie —respondió Hazael—. No, espera. Lo retiro. Mi espada dice que le gustaría conocerte mejor.
~ Laini Taylor
You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type." "I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.
~ Cassandra Clare
So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off on some sort of secret mission." "Guess you Herondales have a type," Julian muttered.
~ Cassandra Clare
This point, that the capacity to appreciate a performance is one in type with the capacity to execute it, illustrates a contention previously argued, namely that intelligent capacities are not single-track dispositions, but are dispositions admitting of a wide variety of more or less dissimilar exercises.
~ Gilbert Ryle
It is a mystery not of the unsolved but soluble type, like the problem of the cause of cancer, but of quite another type.
~ Gilbert Ryle
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
~ James Felici
Type and typography—what you do and how you do it—are both science and art.
~ James Felici
After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
~ David Einhorn
The proposal for how we were going to assist the Leave.E.U. campaign was to undertake the same type of research that we were undertaking in the United States.
~ Brittany Kaiser
The best date would have to be at a sporting event - it will show the guy what type of girl she is.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
I am the type of person who relishes the chance to stand up and perform under pressure. I have had to do that my whole career.
~ Philippe Coutinho
I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.
~ Jovan Adepo
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
~ John Burroughs