Text Quotes

996 Text quotes by 705 unique authors

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play… — Olivier Messiaen
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a… — Michel de Montaigne
He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than… — Martin Luther
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty… — Milton Friedman
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention… — Unknown Author
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do… — William J. Brennan
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. Â These are the elements of magic, and magic is the… — Julia Cameron
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text. — D. A. Carson
I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice… — John Stott
From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way,… — Unknown Author
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from… — Helene Cixous
The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start… — Rick Warren
This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.... — John Ashcroft
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am… — Adrian Peterson
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a… — Arthur Koestler
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative — Neil MacGregor
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

Who Wrote These Text Quotes

705 authors contributed a total of 996 Text Quotes, led by these top contributors: