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Quotes About Type

I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself
~ E.M. Forster
Meanwhile, I have the cats, and, worst of all, I've started to consider them family. I know guys aren't supposed to like cats (out here, you still occasionally find the stout masculine type who goes out and shoots cats), but I can't help it. They've won me over.
~ Ed Gorman
A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
~ Anonymous
Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
~ Anthony Boucher
I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
~ Patrick deWitt
Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.
~ Tom Bissell
We women are the same: I am always more attracted to the dangerous mystery man with piercing eyes and stubble rather than the clean-shaven 'puppy dog' type who is probably much better for me in the long run.
~ Shenaz Treasury
I'm not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I'll be forgotten. I'm more the type to dare the world to forget me.
~ David Berman
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
~ Dominick Dunne
The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.
~ Chad Wolf
For all good soldiers are sentimentalists - all good soldiers of that type. Their profession, for one thing, is full of big words, courage, loyalty, honour, constancy.
~ Ford Madox Ford
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
~ Bill Gates
La emoción más fuerte y antigua de la humanidad es el miedo, y el más fuerte y antiguo tipo de miedo es el miedo a lo desconocido
~ Lovecraft H. P
Capítulos compridos quadram melhor a leitores pesadões; e nós não somos um público in-fólio, mas in-12, pouco texto, larga margem, tipo elegante, corte dourado e vinhetas... principalmente vinhetas... Não, não alonguemos o capítulo.
~ Machado de Assis
All he wanted was to be young together and in love. Too much to ask? "Nobody gets that," she would say. "Nobody. Your problem is you're convinced you have a type." He would say of course he had a type, and she would say: "Give that up. Find someone who treats you decently.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
ANTITYPE  (A'NTITYPE)   n.s.[   which is resembled or shadowed out by the type; that of which the type is the representation.It is a term of theology.See TYPE. When once upon the wing, he soars to an higher pitch, from the type to the antitype, to the days of the Messiah, the ascension of our Saviour, and, at length, to his kingdom and dominion over all the earth.Burnet'sTheory of the Earth.
~ Samuel Johnson
Vrlo osebujan tip lu?aka vjeruje da ?e usaditi svoja na?ela. (...) U?itelji stvarnosti. Oni žele da vam daju poruku - da vas kazne poukom - o Stvarnom.
~ Saul Bellow
The harnessing to a rational pursuit of the immense psychic energies derived from an irrational obsession seems to be another secret of genius, at least of genius of a certain type.
~ Johannes Kepler
Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.
~ Claudia Lee
the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.
~ Elena Ferrante
Most government majors belonged to a social type known as "gov jocks.
~ Elif Batuman
Most people are just pretending to be good to others on the social media,but they are not understanding that the type of post they support or upload only expose them.
~ Anuj Somany
I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.
~ Joan Caulfield
I like the nice, like, you know, good job, good head on his shoulders, good looking type guy.
~ Angelina Pivarnick