Text Quotes
996 quotes by 705 authors
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
— Helen Rowland
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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
— Antonin Scalia
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another…
— Eric Schmidt
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you…
— Chloe Sevigny
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
— Ernest Shackleton
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I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
— William Shatner
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print…
— Nate Silver
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it…
— Wole Soyinka
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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…
— Danielle Steel
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no…
— Wallace Stevens
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I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.
— Ashley Tisdale
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and…
— Abraham Verghese
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I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to…
— Mark Wahlberg
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I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within…
— Joss Whedon
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We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part…
— Joss Whedon
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For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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