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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. -- Alison Gopnik
Texts are always in flux. -- Robert Darnton
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book. -- Franz Wright
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. -- Neil MacGregor
Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer. -- Sam Wineburg
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. -- Jon Meacham
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. -- Felice Picano
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's. -- Deborah Moggach
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled. -- Brad Goreski
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. -- Twyla Tharp
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. -- Cynthia Nixon
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
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. -- Paulo Coelho
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. -- Jon Meacham
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. -- Cynthia Nixon
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments. -- Siri Hustvedt
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one. -- Josh Radnor
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. -- Romeo LeBlanc
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. -- Peter York
There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. -- Neale Donald Walsch
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up. -- Theresa Breslin
I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then. -- Jen Lancaster
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. -- Christopher Hitchens
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. -- Damian Lewis
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. -- Tariq Ramadan
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us. -- Theresa Breslin
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
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care. -- Kate Beckinsale
We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years. -- Amy Klobuchar
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
Sacred texts always offend reason. -- Mason Cooley
A picture is worth a thousand texts. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Exile is a series of photographs without texts. -- William J. Mitchell
I've always been a composer dependent on texts. -- David Del Tredici
Twitter? No, I'd rather use phone and texts. -- Domenico Dolce
The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions. -- Martin Lindstrom
First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. -- N. T. Wright
Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them." -- Justin Taylor
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. -- Louise Jameson
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. -- Hosea Ballou
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. -- Russell Brand
My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'. -- Jay Park
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat -- Thomas Hood
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts. -- Imre Kertesz
You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' -- Spike Jonze
I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. -- Jenny Holzer
A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up. -- Cass McCombs
The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. -- Annie Dillard
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. -- Lee Strasberg
It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. -- Luke Timothy Johnson
He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. -- Chidananda Saraswati
I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts. -- Robert Linssen
Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper. -- Dorothee Solle
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. -- Bill Viola
I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!! -- David Levithan
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts. -- Anatole France
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. -- Joanne Harris
In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate. -- Michel Houellebecq
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. -- Simon Cowell
When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing. -- Isaiah Mustafa
I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time. -- Dani Levy
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. -- Corrie Ten Boom
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. -- Gary Saul Morson
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's -- Drake
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. -- Siri Hustvedt
We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it -- Les Back
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. -- Vaclav Klaus
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. -- Caio Fonseca
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. -- Will Self
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat. -- Carol J. Adams
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts. -- Tariq Ramadan
I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy. -- Michael Schur
Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute. -- Courtney Barnett
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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. -- Mark Twain
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. -- Tom Stoppard
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. -- Paul Theroux
Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it. -- Jase Robertson
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within. -- Elie Wiesel
His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future. -- Behdad Sami
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. -- Theophilus London
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. -- Ridley Scott
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. -- Hassan Blasim
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting. -- Anderson Cooper
Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism. -- Sudhir Ahluwalia
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. -- Marguerite Young
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. -- Paul de Man
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached. -- Thomas Paine
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?' -- Spike Jonze
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject. -- Masha Tupitsyn
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. -- Azar Nafisi
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. -- Stanislav Grof
Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics? -- Gary DeMar
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. -- Thomas Carlyle
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections. -- Jonathan Littell
We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason. -- Mark Cuban
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth. -- Taryn Simon
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves. -- Tom Peters
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. -- Jenny Holzer
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way. -- Damian Lewis
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. -- Jenny Holzer
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism. -- Hakim Bey
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands. -- Jimmy Carter
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. -- William Shenstone
People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious. -- Mayer Hawthorne
We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts "? I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. -- Martin Luther
that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become? -- David Levithan
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. -- Tom Chatfield
I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of improvisation and hearsay learning." -- Mircea Eliade
Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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