Quotes of: Texts Keyword

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

Joanne Harris

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

Siri Hustvedt

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

Alison Jackson

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Antonin Scalia

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

Caio Fonseca

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Mandy Patinkin

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

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

A Temple of Texts

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Paul Ricoeur

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

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

Jonathan Zittrain

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

Lydia Davis

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

Leven Rambin

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Benedetti

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Amy Klobuchar

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

Becki Newton

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

Matt Mullenweg

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Denise Mina