Texting Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Thinking, Mirrors, Keyboards

  "Race Car Driver Allan McNish Talks About Being Scared, Texting and Taking the Bus". Interview with Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, People, Brain

  "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

  Ariana Grande

  Song, Sweet, Artist

  "Ariana Grande On Collaborating With Nathan Sykes And Recording One Of The Best Album’s This Year". Interview with Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

  Lauren Graham

  Flirty, Flirting, Care

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• Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Daughter, Potassium, Might

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2011

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• I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

  Mario Bunge

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

  Rob Zombie

  Trying, Answers, Care

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• Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.

  Ivan Reitman

  Distance, People, Today

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

  Igor Levit

  School, Generations, Machines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Giving, Wake Up

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• It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.

  Ivan Reitman

  Distance, Emotional, Thinking

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Couple, Years, Guy

  "Sevigny Dreams Of Big Love Life Like Co-star Tripplehorn's" by wenn.com, December 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Communication, Care, Sneaky

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

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• I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don't want to be alone for a second because it's so hard.

  Louis C. K.

  Car, People, Risk

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• They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home

  Troy Ave

  Girl, Reading, Home

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• I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.

  David Crystal

  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  David Crystal (2009). “List of cartoons ;The Hype About Texting ;How Weird is Texting? ;What is Distinctive About it? ;Why do They do it? ;Who Texts? ;What do They Text About? ;How do Other Languages do it? ;Why all the Fuss? ;Glossary ;Appendix ;Index”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Light, Skills

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• Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters.

  Rick Riordan

  Monsters, Internet, Browsing

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• The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

  Lynne Truss

  Reading, Intimate Conversation, Ipods

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• I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

  Tammara Webber

  Night, Thinking, Hands

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, 2012.

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• Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Necks, Principles, Might

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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• Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write... A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in - even if it’s dead silent at home.

  Nathan Englander

  Home, Writing, Phones

  "How I Write: Nathan Englander". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

  Anne Lamott

  Divorce, Vacation, Journey

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• If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Jobs, Thinking, White

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