Texting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary.
-- Brian Stelter -
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.
-- Claudia Gray -
I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.
-- Dave Gahan -
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
-- John H. McWhorter -
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
-- John H. McWhorter -
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.
-- Lorene Scafaria -
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
-- Lynne Truss -
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
-- Lynne Truss -
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.
-- Lynne Truss -
If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.
-- Mark Cuban -
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
-- Maureen Dowd -
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
-- Mike DeWine -
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
-- Nick Cave -
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
-- Sherry Turkle -
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.
-- Tyne Daly -
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
-- Victoria Justice -
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
-- Will Self -
I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.
-- Allan McNish -
Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute... er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.
-- Christine Sneed -
The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.
-- Elaine Equi -
I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.
-- Igor Levit -
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
-- Pat Gillick -
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
-- Padgett Powell