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Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. — Diane Lane
What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a… — Trevor Nunn
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I… — Daniel Pinkwater
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty,… — Zara Phillips
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after -… — Taiye Selasi
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have… — Piers Anthony
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results… — Paulo Freire
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction… — Paulo Freire
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. — Ben Marcus
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it… — Donald Miller
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and… — Steve Largent
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of… — Gerhard Richter
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to… — Alfred North Whitehead
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the… — Constantin Stanislavski
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the… — Leslie Fiedler
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every… — Pico Iyer
I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing… — Vincent Nichols
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how… — Dick Bruna
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it.… — Ed Balls
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs,… — Joan Blades
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. — James C. Collins
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting. — Anderson Cooper
What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like… — Robert Cailliau

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