Literate Quotes
125 Literate quotes by 119 unique authors
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Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing…
— Jeffery Deaver
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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
— David Antin
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I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a…
— Jerome Rothenberg
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I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.
— John Marston
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create…
— Lisa See
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Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers,…
— Ron Franscell
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I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character…
— Mark Millar
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In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
— Ajay Devgan
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The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
— C.S. Lewis
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Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses…
— Henry Jenkins
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There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one…
— Roger Schank
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
— Loren Eiseley
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There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form…
— Glenn T. Seaborg
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Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
— Maggie Scarf
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The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.
— Shirley Brice Heath
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If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
— David Warlick
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If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
— Dorothy Parker
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The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used…
— Jerome Bruner
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Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know…
— David Crystal
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It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
— Rita Mae Brown
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You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient!
— John Wimber
Who Wrote These Literate Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 125 Literate Quotes, led by these top contributors: