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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. — Caio Fonseca
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and… — Joshua Foer
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. — Louise Jameson
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is… — Samuel Beckett
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures… — Peter York
I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat — Thomas Hood
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached. — Thomas Paine
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and… — Guru Nanak
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least… — Thomas Aquinas
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. — Alison Gopnik
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective… — Stanislav Grof
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. — Simon Cowell
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the… — Jacques Derrida
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good… — James Fenton
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,… — Christopher Hitchens
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater… — Romeo LeBlanc
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at… — Damian Lewis

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