Text Quotes
996 quotes by 785 authors
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My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine…
— Dean Haglund
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I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text…
— Lucy Hale
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The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our…
— Ron Paul
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This is too much madness to explain in one text.
— Leeon Jones
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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text…
— Douglas Groothuis
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Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading…
— Richard Bushman
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If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text…
— Mary Szybist
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
— Harold Bloom
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An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is…
— Steven Berkoff
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You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,
— John F. Kerry
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That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall…
— Charles Tupper
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text…
— Jonathan Culler
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
— William James
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The text is your greatest enemy.
— Sanford Meisner
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There is nothing outside the text
— Jacques Derrida
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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose
— Mahatma Gandhi
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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it…
— Milorad Pavić
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Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a…
— John Thorne
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