Text Quotes

I live for the text. It’s my job.

– Ian Mckellen

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

– John Ortberg

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

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

– Adrienne Mayor

Acting doesn’t bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

– Elaine Dundy

It’s a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

– Elfriede Jelinek

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

– Paul Ricoeur

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

– Edward Gibbon

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare’s words.

– Edward Hall

My career wouldn’t exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

– Ezra Klein

I can’t text. My fingers are too big.

– Denis Leary

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

– Diane Lane

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

– Paul McCartney

Tone can be as important as text.

– Ed Koch

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

– Juan Goytisolo

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

– John Curran

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

– Penny Marshall

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

– Rachel Maddow

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

– Tom McCarthy

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.’

– Sojourner Truth

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

– Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I don’t text, I don’t have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven’t programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don’t even have an earpiece for my cell phone.

– Steve Carell