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When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. — Michael Bassey

Don't make fun of me," Lan snapped. "I'm illiterate, not stupid! I know there's no B in subtle! — R. Lee Smith

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out. — Mike Birbiglia

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate. — Hal Sparks

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. — J.D. Salinger

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate. — Mitch Hedberg

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians. — Che Guevara

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate. — Erica Jong

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. — Gerard Depardieu

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate. — Brian Friel

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. — Roseanne Barr

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted. — Dada Bhagwan

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. — Ambrose Bierce

I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate. — Robert Schell

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate — Alan Brien

[The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population). — George Orwell

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole. — Santosh Kalwar

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. — Alison Bechdel

Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab — Bun B.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro

There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn. — Virginia Aird

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate. — George Barna

In Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly: — Alain De Botton

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate. — Jennifer Aniston

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much. — Alfie Allen

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading. — Evangeline Lilly

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. — Richard Flanagan

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it. — Harry Browne

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate. — Abraham Verghese

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? — Chinua Achebe

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. — Octavia Butler

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders

My innocent eyes are illiterate, teach them some mischief. They're complete idiots, teach them some signs. — Myself

Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list--- which today is priceless. — Mitchell Symons

I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling, — Patrick Modiano

White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate. — Chris Crass

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. — James Purdy

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wrote on the door of my heart, 'Please do not enter.'
Love came smiling and said: 'Sorry I am an illiterate. — Michael Paul

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. — Matthew Ashimolowo

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. — Jane Porter

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs; when buying a newspaper. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld

I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics. — Orhan Pamuk

You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate. — Jonas Jonasson

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. — Paul Theroux

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children. — George W. Bush

Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate. — Joe Haldeman

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses. — Amit Abraham

You cannot be both prosperous and illiterate at the same time. — Sunday Adelaja

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Michel De Montaigne

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.' — Christina Ricci

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann

I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get. — John McCain

Love is blind," Harriet quipped.
"But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted. — Julia Quinn

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. — Alvin Toffler

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. — John Grogan

If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you. — Kevin Hearne

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. — Peter Diamandis

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world ... Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When the only rule is there are no rules becomes literal, we'll all become illiterate and unable to offend one another at all. — Brian Spellman

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. — Terry Eagleton

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. — Alvin Toffler

You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate. — Kshitij Shringi

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. — Walter Benjamin

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. — Jeffrey Archer

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. — Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

B. You're pop-culturally illiterate not to know that this number is a song. — Kresley Cole

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years. — Mark Twain

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. — Jimmy Carter

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. — John Adams