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Text Quotes

Words that keep generating meaning.

These text quotes explore what makes a text endure: its capacity to yield fresh readings, its role in spreading cultural forms, and an actor's discipline in trusting the script. See related lines in Being quotes.

Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Quotes by Tony Conrad

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

Quotes by Tom McCarthy

Ability Quotes

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Quotes by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

In 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy working in Newark. He did in fact create the inter-office mail system and called it email. What they did before 1978 was text messaging.

Quotes by Shiva Ayyadurai

Email is not the simple exchange of text messages. Email is the electronic version of the interoffice mail system used for formal letter or memo communication.

Quotes by Shiva Ayyadurai

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

Quotes by Rachel Maddow

Always Quotes

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

Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

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

Quotes by Paul McCartney

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

Quotes by Nate Powell

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Quotes by Mike DeWine

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

Quotes by Melanie Rawn

Being Quotes

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.

Quotes by Matt Mullenweg

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Quotes by Lydia Davis

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

Quotes by Lydia Davis

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

Quotes by Leland Ryken

Bible Quotes

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Quotes by Juan Goytisolo

Frequently Asked Questions

What do text quotes generally discuss?
They explore how meaning is created and reread in written work, how culture spreads through text, and how actors commit to the words on a script.
Is literary theory part of these quotes?
Yes, one defines poetic effect through a text's ability to keep producing new interpretations without ever running dry.
Do actors talk about scripts here?
Yes, one actor says that in the end, staying true to the script's text is what matters most.
Is visual storytelling mentioned?
Yes, one storyteller discusses balancing text and images so neither becomes redundant with the other.
What other quotes relate to writing and meaning?
Check Bible quotes for more on foundational texts.

A visual storyteller's perspective rounds things out, weighing how much text is needed before it becomes redundant with the images themselves. Continue with Ability or Bible quotes.