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Text Quotes by George Steiner
- The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction.…
- When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
- The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn…
- Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert…
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- When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every… — Jimmy Carter
- History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. — Eldridge Cleaver
- If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. — Piers Anthony
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens
- Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would… — Charles Spurgeon
- Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the… — Austin Phelps
- Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling… — David Lloyd-Jones
- You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay
- Silence is a text easy to misread. — A.A. Attanasio