When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.


Theodore H. White

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There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
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There's nothing to writing. All you do it sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
WALTER WELLESLEY SMITH
It just sits there in my locker for when I want to come back and put it on.
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Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
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He sits at the kitchen table, which is the only authentic way to touch down at home in Queens.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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AL GOLDSTEIN
The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
TOM ROBBINS
Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD
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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
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There is nothing - nothing - worse than seeing ankle or a hairy calf when a man in a suit or trouser...
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A reporter was shot when he was going to work. We don't know who the killers are at the moment.
ROHAN ABEYWARDENE
No. And if Sherman sits him down, they'll sit Sherman down.
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I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave i...
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Hes doing better than what we thought.
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
HORACE GREELEY
The darkest hour in any man's' life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it
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People are getting nervous about H-share prices. At this level, H-shares are quite high.
CASTOR PANG
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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Happiness is like peeing your pants... Everyone can see it,But only you can feel the warmth.
A FRIEND
[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS
Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
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BRIAN WILSON
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
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DETECTIVE VIRGINIA LOPEZ
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When a reporter better tell you what color the corpse' s socks were.
PHIL ROGERS
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford...
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When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
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There are a lot of people, like Senator Dole, that are concerned about her as a friend and as a repo...
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Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest ins...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the...
EDNA FERBER
No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.
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This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
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Everybody sits around a table, with the judge seated at the head.
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Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets insid...
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I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you’re wrong, hold your hand when you fall d...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptio...
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Would you want you as a friend?
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It sits in a bowl. When we have hurricanes, it floods.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every ot...
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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty ...
THEODORE ZELDIN
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE RUBIN
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER
The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER
My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT