Quotes of: Texts Keyword

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

Will Self

My shift isn’t over until six,” I say glumly. “Hold on,” he says. He pulls a Blackberry from his coat pocket and taps out a text. It buzzes, and he taps out another text before stashing it back in his pocket. “I think you can take the rest ...

Fifty-one Shades: A Parody

The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in the 1960s and it made a large impact on the higher education establishments of Britain and America. New life was breath...

Thomas Hardy

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

The Fault in Our Stars

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything?

L.M. Fields

The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Leland Ryken

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.

Lynne Truss

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

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

Michael Weatherly

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Joyce Carol Oates

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Tracy Morgan

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Eldridge Cleaver

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

Howard Shore

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

Steven Hall

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Willie Nelson

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Alice Walker

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

George Wendt