Distinction Quote by David Antin Download Open image “I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.” — David Antin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distinction Unsatisfied
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming. — Dan Gillmor Copy Share Image
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni Copy Share Image
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me:… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with… — David Antin Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse… — David Antin Copy Share Image
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin Copy Share Image
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan… — David Antin Copy Share Image
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think… — David Antin Copy Share Image
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
