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There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. — Alexander Payne

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past. — Daniel Pauly

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate. — James Herbert

Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game. — John Marston

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online. — Brian Tracy

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family. — Lenny Abrahamson

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming. — Dan Gillmor

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have. — Wayne McGregor

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine. — Marilynne Robinson

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society. — Marshall McLuhan

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. — Robertson Davies

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life — John Cheever

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda ... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan

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

It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient! — John Wimber

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. — Noam Chomsky

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments. — Hari Kunzru

Bond people pose the same problem to a cultural anthropologist as a non-literate tribe deep in the Amazon. In — Michael Lewis

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate. — David Warlick

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin

To be scientifically literate is
to empower yourself to
know when someone else is
full of bullshit. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills — Leonardo Da Vinci

Even if you have to die tomorrow; die as a literate. — M.F. Moonzajer

she constantly shifts back and forth between her "literate" narrator's voice and a highly idiomatic black voice — Zora Neale Hurston

The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote! — Bill Nye

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

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world. — Rita Mae Brown

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world. — Peter Davis

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?"
"Because they're talented. — Anthony Horowitz

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess. — Katie Holmes

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. — Christina Hoff Sommers

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself. — Christopher Rice

The windy sky
Cries out a literate despair. — Wallace Stevens

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. — R. Scott Bakker

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate. — John Malkovich

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people. — Shirley Brice Heath

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate. — Robert Kiyosaki

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible. — Reza Aslan

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. — David Foster Wallace

An old guy was asked if he had ever googled himself. Probably not computer literate, he answered: "Of course, we all did, but we didn't call it that. — Mike Bove

she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. — Harper Lee

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school. — Stephen D. Krashen

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history. — William Rosen

Decrepitude; the preferred clientele, literate. — Anonymous

The World needs Educated Persons not the Literate Ones — Yarro Rai

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty — Ban Ki-moon

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate. — Judy Holliday

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method. — Alan Watts

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich — Robert Kiyosaki

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. — Sam Hinton

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. — Bill Nye

There's definitely a value in being literate. — Chris Van Allsburg

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. — Maggie Scarf

There were as many Jews as Greeks in the Roman empire, and a higher proportion of them were literate. — Paul Johnson

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. — Eric Hoffer

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate. — Alonso Duralde

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. — Morrissey

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate. — Ajay Devgan

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. — Henry Rollins

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are. — Phil McGraw

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate. — Megan Smolenyak

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate. — George Carlin

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate! — Patty Murray

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. — Lynn Johnston

To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And — Steven Pinker

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. — Debra Winger