"Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication,……" — Lynne Truss
"Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now."
—
Lynne Truss
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
60 Quotes by Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss has 60 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
-
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
-
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and…
-
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations.…
-
The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
-
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have…
-
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything…
-
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
-
Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
-
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
-
As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying,…
-
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought…
See all 60 quotes by Lynne Truss »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »