Typewriters Quote by Theodore White Download Open image “When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.” — Theodore White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Typewriters
If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image