Literate Quotes

125 quotes by 119 authors

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. — John Cheever
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate. — Robert Kiyosaki
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community… — Koichiro Matsuura
I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have. — Wayne McGregor
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science. — Eugenie Scott
Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner… — Arne Duncan
They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an… — Eamon Dunphy
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read… — Robertson Davies
In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the… — Mellody Hobson
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's… — Bill Nye
I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate. — Judy Holliday
If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I dont expect to be a great… — John McCain
I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy… — George W. Bush
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That… — Sara Parkin
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their… — Lucinda Williams
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary — Lynn Johnston

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