Literate Quotes

125 Literate quotes by 119 unique authors

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and… — Stephen Fry
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a… — Neil Gaiman
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. — Robertson Davies
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider… — Naguib Mahfouz
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do… — David Mamet
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. — Alexander Payne
I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more… — Henry Rollins
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate… — Paul Theroux
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. — Debra Winger
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have… — Nelson Mandela
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making… — Harper Lee
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I… — Kurt Vonnegut
You are like nobody since I love you" -Pablo Neruda This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love… — John O'Donohue
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. — Ambeth R. Ocampo
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate… — George Orwell
[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. — David Foster Wallace

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