Texting Quotes

• Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

  John H. McWhorter

  Writing, Speech, Way

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• 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

  Technology, Feelings, Way

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

  Nick Cave

  Levels, Reduction, Apocalyptic

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• I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, People, Effort

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Writing, Law, California

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• 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

  Communication, Machines, Favors

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• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

  Taylor Swift

  Relationship, Heart, People

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• 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

  Thinking, Letters, Punctuation

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• I think kids are fairly similar. It's just really the technology. Like, you won't find kids in the 60s, or anyone for that matter, having mobile phones, texting, watching YouTube, and being absorbed in their technology.

  Jared Gilman

  Kids, Technology, Thinking

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• Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

  David Crystal

  Impact, Long, Use

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Invasion

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fire, Two, Bored

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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• We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

  Nancy Lublin

  Motivation, Powerful, Inspiration

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• If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Glowing, People

  "Director Wes Craven Interview SCREAM 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2011.

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• There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

  Werner Herzog

  Civilization, Vehemence, Culture

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• 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

  Giving, Doe, Welcome

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.164, Basic Books

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• Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Phones, Way, My Favorite

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• 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

  Communication, Mean, Use

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Dad, Order

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• What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

  Sherry Turkle

  Phones, Light, Seductive

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• 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

  Long, Messages, Punctuation

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• 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

  Communication, Kids, Years

  POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

  Danielle Steel

  Voice, People, Needs

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• 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

  Writing, People, Letters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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