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The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience. — Sathya Sai Baba
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial… — Octavio Paz
I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot. — Adam Michnik
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying… — Carol Ann Duffy
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. — Teresa of Avila
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge. — Arthur Hertzberg
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda, — Wendy Doniger
Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word… — Wim Crouwel
It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns! — Jenny Downham
I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things… — Patsy Rodenburg
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type. — Danny Wallace
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… — Gore Vidal
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner
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… — George Steiner
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… — George Steiner
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they… — Tavis Smiley
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in… — Jeff VanderMeer
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of… — David Gelernter
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired… — William Gibson

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