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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language. -- David Crystal
Text without context is pretext. -- Walter Martin
Text first, rhythm second, melody third. -- Claudio Monteverdi
The Text is not a definitive object. -- Roland Barthes
Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing. -- Jay Baer
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. -- Louise Rosenblatt
Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures. -- Christian Rudder
Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. -- Robert Scoble
It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns! -- Jenny Downham
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type. -- Danny Wallace
Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible." -- John Shelby Spong
Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God. -- Walter Reynolds
Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron. -- Dane Cook
The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory. -- George Steiner
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text. -- Roland Barthes
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more. -- Dave Willis
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate. -- Robert Crumb
There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting. -- Ashton Kutcher
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. -- Bryan Callen
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? -- Antonin Scalia
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. -- Paul Ricoeur
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage. -- Garcelle Beauvais
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. -- James Madison
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. -- Carol Ann Duffy
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. -- Danielle Steel
I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone. -- Steve Carell
I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned. -- Mark Wahlberg
You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody. -- Steve Harvey
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. -- Jim Jarmusch
I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun. -- Amanda Schull
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. -- Joshua Foer
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'. -- Kelly Osbourne
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting. -- Jason Reitman
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world. -- Kristina McMorris
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time. -- Mikko Hypponen
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother. -- Ariana Grande
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings. -- Susan Orlean
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake. -- Louis Dudek
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. -- Al Pacino
Every text assumes a reader. -- Alberto Manguel
The text is your greatest enemy. -- Sanford Meisner
There is nothing outside the text -- Jacques Derrida
I'll respond to your text message, baby. -- Nick Jonas
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. -- John Ziman
The text has disappeared under the interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I really enjoy fusing text and music. -- Jeff Britting
Silence is a text easy to misread. -- A.A. Attanasio
Tone can be as important as text. -- Ed Koch
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative -- Neil MacGregor
I live for the text. It's my job. -- Ian Mckellen
I can't text. My fingers are too big. -- Denis Leary
I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. -- Rachel Maddow
A text is evolutionary by its very nature. -- Reif Larsen
Music is the melody whose text is the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The text is a limited field of possible constructions. -- Paul Ricoeur
Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed! -- Kate Beckinsale
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal. -- Mike DeWine
No text message will ever replace the first kiss. -- Tom Brokaw
She told you to G.T.F.O. over text???? -- Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
People who text a lot are not my favorite thing. -- Penny Marshall
This is too much madness to explain in one text. -- Leeon Jones
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text. -- Elie Wiesel
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive. -- Anthony Hopkins
If you're thinking bout me, text 143 that means I Love You -- Cody Simpson
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text -- William James
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Douglas McIlroy
Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda, -- Wendy Doniger
Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself. -- Johann Albrecht Bengel
DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text. -- Mem Fox
Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count. -- Alexander Kluge
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. -- Paul McCartney
I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes. -- Rob Roberge
I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text. -- Bong Joon-ho
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. -- Edith Hamilton
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. -- Henry James
I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text. -- Dalai Lama
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text. -- D. A. Carson
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. -- Geoff Nicholson
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing. -- Beeban Kidron
How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating. -- Greg Giraldo
The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. -- Frank Moore Cross
There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. -- John Ortberg
My ex send late night text cause she don't know to let go -- Drake
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much. -- Sherry Turkle
XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] -- Jacques Derrida
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. -- Elaine Dundy
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. -- Albert Einstein
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. -- Diane Lane
Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security. -- Barack Obama
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. -- Roland Barthes
The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. -- Annie Dillard
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. -- Andrea Hirata
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher -- Mahatma Gandhi
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. -- John Green
I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text. -- Stanislaw Ulam
I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk. -- Rich Sommer
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. -- Kenzaburo Oe
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. -- Jeanette Winterson
I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!! -- David Levithan
Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you. -- Patsy Rodenburg
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. -- Dean Koontz
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. -- Ben Marcus
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. -- Alberto Manguel
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. -- Peter Greenaway
Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties. -- David Haye
I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. -- Greta Scacchi
We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone. -- Katy Perry
We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full. -- Alistair Begg
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. -- George Herbert
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. -- Eldridge Cleaver
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging. -- Gore Vidal

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