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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message. — Robin Sloan

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. — Harold Bloom

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter. — William Jones

A reader must know the topic of a text in order to understand it. — Steven Pinker

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. — Douglas Coupland

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — John Green

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. — Alberto Manguel

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. — Paul McCartney

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms. — Nathan Lowell

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. — Lauren Mayberry

The worst wait in life is waiting for someone to text back. Riya — Chetan Bhagat

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. — Malcolm Miller

It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text. — Lindsey Kelk

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. — Greta Scacchi

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. — Robert Wilson

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. — James Russell Lowell

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative. — Rabih Alameddine

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text, — John F. Kerry

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. — Catherine Brady

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page. — Ameen Rihani

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script. — Tom McCarthy

In no text or archaeological finding do we find the term "Land of Israel" used to refer to a defined geographic region. This — Shlomo Sand

She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging. — Keith Gessen

That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit. — Chris Lynch

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. — Andrea Hirata

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures. — Christian Rudder

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? — William Shakespeare

I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse emotions in the reader. — Muriel Barbery

The technique is marvelously described in the classic management text The One Minute Manager. — Ben Horowitz

Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time. — Paul J. Silvia

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000. — Peter J. Tanous

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible." — John Shelby Spong

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

avoid underlining text, except in the case of hyperlinks. — Graphic Design Artists United

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text. — Blixa Bargeld

A text from Rio comes in: I just paid my weed guy with a check. I think I've got the hang of this adulting thing. — Karina Halle

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. — Alison Jackson

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner

text of deaths in exorcisms gone awry in the United — Tracy Wilkinson

Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant. — H.P. Lovecraft

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. — Ben Marcus

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. — Ernest Shackleton

Concentrate on the text for the moment: the other parts will fall into place in time. — Matthew Johnson

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text. — Jack O'Connell

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. — Susan Sontag

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it. — Kelly Lynch

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin

As you preach, stay in the text, give honor to Christ and He will use you — Steven J. Lawson

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life, — Taylor Swift

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon

The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek. — Sudhir Ahluwalia

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text. — Jeff VanderMeer

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. — Teresa Of Avila

The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much. — Wim Crouwel

I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. — Richard Due

In the fields with which we are concerned,
knowledge comes only in flashes. The text
is the thunder rolling long afterward. — Walter Benjamin

The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history. — Amir Alexander

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. — Charles Krauthammer

Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. — Geoff Nicholson

You have read in the text where They love him
blends with He loves them.
Those joining loves
are both qualities of God. Fear is not. — Jalaluddin Rumi

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. — Jorge Luis Borges

Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted. — Marion Coutts

The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces. — Sigmund Freud

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text. — Walter Brueggemann

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

Don't text me while I'm in the middle of texting you! Now I have to change everything I wrote!" -Hasan Tutar — Hasan

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. — Charles Spurgeon

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.' — Michelle Yeoh

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way. — Fred D'Aguiar

At the time that I was struggling with these questions, I was reading and teaching from Is There a Meaning in this Text? — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing. — Marie Calloway