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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. — Alison Gopnik

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. — Hosea Ballou

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. — Jenny Holzer

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. — Thomas Carlyle

Expect writers to do more than sit and study the works of those they hope to emulate. Encourage them to cut mentor texts open - physically. — Angela Stockman

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. — Martin Luther

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts. — Melissa Marr

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts. — Annie Dillard

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it — Les Back

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. — Eckhart Tolle

Scholars heal poetic texts; poetry, to some degree, may heal scholars. — Kenneth J. Reckford

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting. — Anderson Cooper

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat. — Carol J. Adams

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat — Thomas Hood

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts. — Imre Kertesz

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts. — Tariq Ramadan

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg

Exile is a series of photographs without texts. — William J. Mitchell

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor

I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation. — Alexander Mamut

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. — Caio Fonseca

A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable. — Andrew Bennett

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. — Russell Brand

Men can't use exclamation points in texts... it's weird. We also don't say [stuff] like 'yay'. — Jacinta Howard

Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories. — Michael Ray Smith

Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard. — Joshua Foer

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached. — Thomas Paine

The Buddha who stares back at us from the texts will be too much a reflection of ourselves, too little an image of the Enlightened One. — Dalai Lama XIV

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

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject. — Masha Tupitsyn

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason. — Mark Cuban

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays! — Dan Abnett

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. — Ridley Scott

But in the slow, attentive reading demanded by unpunctuated texts, the faculty of hearing has its chance, is enhanced until the text speaks itself. — Dorothy M. Richardson

wisdom? As the Zen texts explain, "To live in trusting — Jack Kornfield

You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are. — Rainbow Rowell

Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future. — Behdad Sami

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. — Gregory Of Nyssa

Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them. — Justin Taylor

I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?' — Spike Jonze

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. — Hassan Blasim

Be brave, be strong, read your sacred texts, and practice death. — Suzanne Morrison

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. — N. T. Wright

Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute. — Courtney Barnett

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate. — Michel Houellebecq

Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation - The Rainbow At Midnight — AainaA-Ridtz

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. — Paul Theroux

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. — Frederick Lenz

The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking — Dmitry Dyatlov

You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' — Spike Jonze

Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections. — Rawi Hage

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter.
You up? he asks.
And the reply comes instantly:
For anything. — David Levithan

Texts are always in flux. — Robert Darnton

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology. — James MacDonald

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson

And part of the problem is that phone. You have that function on that fucking phone that enables you to know when your texts are opened and ignored. — Caroline Kepnes

I bet girls never agonize about texts like this. — Anne Eliot

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. — Will Self

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. — Jenny Holzer

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt

Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts. — Robert Linssen

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. — Luke Timothy Johnson

How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret? — Margaret Atwood

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. — Vaclav Klaus

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola

I text tiny a minute later.
MADE NEW GAY FRIEND.
And he texts back
PROGRESS!!! — David Levithan

Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy. — Steven Pinker

Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's — Drake

Sacred texts always offend reason. — Mason Cooley

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails — Meg Cabot

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth. — Taryn Simon

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author. — Steve Maraboli

We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. — Arthur W. Pink

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. — Theophilus London

Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority. — Nanamoli Thera

Most people start the day by checking email, texts, and social media. And most people struggle to be successful. It's not a coincidence. — Hal Elrod

I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's. — Deborah Moggach

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use. — Marge Piercy

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

You know it's the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper. — Tanya Masse

A picture is worth a thousand texts. — Melissa De La Cruz

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it. — Jase Robertson

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts. — Anatole France

My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'. — Jay Park

So, you purchased ancient Babylonian texts, which may or may not call forth Gozer the Destroyer, on eBay? Zeb asked. — Molly Harper

People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious. — Mayer Hawthorne

When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing. — Isaiah Mustafa

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. — Idries Shah

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul De Man

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship. — Robyn Schneider

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard

In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled. — Brad Goreski