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Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. -- John McWhorter
Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters. -- Rick Riordan
Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift. -- Robin Williams
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? -- John McWhorter
I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever. -- Mark Cuban
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. -- Nick Cave
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. -- John McWhorter
I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting. -- Igor Levit
I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything. -- Dave Gahan
I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone. -- Ayn Rand
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. -- David Crystal
Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible. -- Igor Levit
Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it! -- Lauren Graham
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. -- Craig Ferguson
I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all. -- Brendan Dooling
What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you. -- Sherry Turkle
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for. -- Lynne Truss
Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle. -- Jeaniene Frost
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance. -- Padgett Powell
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I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment. -- Crystal Reed
I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person. -- Mario Bunge
When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Bros. and Sony, and all that, because they haven't kept their attention and challenged them. They're smart little kids that are bored, and I wanted to challenge them. -- Joseph M. Kahn
The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT! -- Mindy Kaling
John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor. -- Joseph M. Kahn
Perk, from the minute you got here... I hated you before you got here... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you. -- Kevin Durant
It's so fun to be on a show where we're all on our toes, all the time. We're constantly texting each other and calling each other while we're reading and go, "Oh, my gosh, I can't believe you do that! Holy cow! This is crazy!" Sometimes it's a bit more procedural. Sometimes it's a bit more emotional. We get the best of all genres, in one little package. -- Devin Kelley
Calling is for #â?? Men - Texting is for #â?? Teenagers . -- Patti Stanger
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now. -- Lynne Truss
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? -- John McWhorter
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor. -- Pat Gillick
Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone. -- Chuck Klosterman
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. -- John McWhorter
I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person. -- Tom Felton
Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever. -- Aziz Ansari
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'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym. -- Will Self
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something? -- Seth Shostak
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. -- Dale Archer
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
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell. -- Maureen Dowd
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. -- Taylor Swift
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. -- Matthew Rhys
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car. -- Hugh Laurie
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. -- Will Self
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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
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call. -- Victoria Justice
I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. -- Sean Berdy
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. -- Lynne Truss
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. -- Amy Klobuchar
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters. -- Lorene Scafaria
I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it. -- Andre Holland
We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids]. -- Nancy Lublin
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. -- Nancy Gibbs
Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything? -- L.M. Fields
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you -- Cassandra Clare
No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary. -- Brian Stelter
They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home -- Troy Ave
I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them. -- Chloe Sevigny
Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting. -- Andy Borowitz
A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: "Sorry, just got your text! -- Jimmy Fallon
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine. -- Mike DeWine
I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me? -- Tammara Webber
Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting. -- Rob Zombie
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. -- Mallory Ortberg
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand. -- Bill Engvall
As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters. -- Mariella Frostrup
If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be. -- Wes Craven
If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family. -- Mark Cuban
My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over. -- Michael Weatherly
As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can. -- Katherine Paterson
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. -- Amy Klobuchar
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical. -- Sherry Turkle
LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. -- John McWhorter
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. -- John McWhorter
The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids. -- Nancy Lublin
I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling. -- Sam Altman
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. -- Tyne Daly
I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive. -- Dan Hill
I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms. -- Bill Walsh
My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology. -- Becki Newton
I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive. -- Jason Bateman
Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. -- Ivan Reitman
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech. -- Dylan Moran
Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going. -- Claudia Gray
If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it. -- Adriana Lima

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