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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson
The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation.… — Donald Pleasence
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night… — Nancy Mairs
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out… — Alma Guillermoprieto
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere? — J. Norman Collie
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory… — Marilyn Hacker
A text is evolutionary by its very nature. — Reif Larsen
It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I… — Zach Braff
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. — Richard Stallman
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,… — Ezra Pound
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog.… — Kathryn Flett
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.… — John Greenleaf Whittier
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Andrea diSessa
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With… — Dave Willis
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof… — Isaac Mayer Wise
It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make… — Seneca the Younger
Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would… — David Abram
Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text,… — Simon McBurney

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