Text Quotes
996 quotes by 705 authors
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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
— Peter Greenaway
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Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly…
— Brit Marling
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Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as…
— Russell Brand
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Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread…
— Sandra Cisneros
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
— Elaine Dundy
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This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text…
— Douglas McIlroy
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Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
— Douglas McIlroy
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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence that many 'tantric'…
— Indra Sinha
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The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a…
— Indra Sinha
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Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies…
— Jeanette
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There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered…
— Pat Buchanan
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
— Thomas Jefferson
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
— Elie Wiesel
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
— Walter Benjamin
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If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long…
— J.K. Simmons
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But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because…
— Marina Keegan
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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what…
— David Crystal
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