Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute.
I always say this: If you a dude texts you after 2 a.m. and you reply, then you will never get called at 8 p.m. He won't take you serious.
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)
We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.
Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.
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.
We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.
Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.
Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.
Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.
It was funny to hear that I'd slapped Bieber. I thought it was a joke. Then it blew up. I probably got 50 texts about it.
I'm always getting texts asking why I'm not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I'm like, 'It's not me. You're writing to some stranger.'
I love Ric Flair. He's a great person with me, he talks, texts me, sometimes we have dinner.
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.
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.
If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.
My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.
When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
I've given my phone number to the weirdest people. I get texts from people all the time.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.
I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.
We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.
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