Texts Quotes
276 quotes by 245 authors
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Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about…
— John McWhorter
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I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away…
— Stieg Larsson
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
— Paul Theroux
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Texts are always in flux.
— Robert Darnton
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see…
— Paulo Coelho
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Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this…
— Tristram Stuart
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Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
— Tom Stoppard
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In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets…
— Brad Goreski
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
— J. G. Ballard
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Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
— Jonathan Zittrain
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
— Felice Picano
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Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
— Ridley Scott
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Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in…
— Willard Boyle
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When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles,…
— Theresa Breslin
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In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a…
— Theresa Breslin
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Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
— Siri Hustvedt
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Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This…
— Mona Simpson
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For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance,…
— Michael Rostovtzeff
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the…
— Alan Dundes
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I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to…
— Emmitt Smith
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