Text Quotes

• I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Trouble

• Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Text
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • World
  • Soul
  • Lost

• I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • People
  • Work
  • Text

• I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friends

• I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Boy

• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  

  Walker Evans
  • History
  • Future
  • Risk

• Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Wonder

• Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Text

• No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Music
  • Play
  • Wood

• Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Proud
  • Sometimes

• Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

  

  Melanie Rawn
  • Text

• Now the Senate is looking for 'moderate' judges, 'mainstream' judges. What in the world is a moderate interpretation of a constitutional text? Halfway between what it says and what we'd like it to say?

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • World
  • Text

• I tried making films with messages. Now I’d rather send a text!

  

  Salman Khan
  • Films
  • Text
  • I Tried

• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Text
  • Greeks
  • Latins

• I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Text

• Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

  

  Alexander Kluge
  • Long
  • Text

• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'

  

  Yves Klein
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Text

• We're surrounded by distractions. Whether it's emails, phone calls, text messages, social media notifications, or people entering and leaving your workspace, those distractions end up eating a good portion of your time.

  

  John Rampton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Learning
  • Text

• As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Text

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