Dwarvish Text Quotes

That which I call a text is practically everything… Speech is a text, gesture is a text, reality is a text in this new sense. This is not about re-establishing graphocentrism alongside logocentrism or phonocentrism or text-centrism. The text is not a centre. The text is an openness without borders, of ever-differentiating references. ~ Jacques Derrida

There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text. ~ John Corvino

There is no such thing as chance in a text. Any text is the result of a repertoire, on conscious and unconscious levels, and can only be decoded by someone privy to the same repertoire. ~ Ivan Angelo

For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish. ~ Kevin Hearne

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject. ~ Crawford Kilian

A text is evolutionary by its very nature. ~ Reif Larsen

I live for the text. It's my job. ~ Ian McKellen

When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them. ~ Orhan Pamuk

he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

I speak some dwarvish. ~ Richard C. Armitage

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text? ~ Gayle King

I tend the mobile now
like an injured bird

We text, text, text
our significant words.

I re-read your first,
your second, your third,

look for your small xx,
feeling absurd.

The codes we send
arrive with a broken chord.

I try to picture your hands,
their image is blurred.

Nothing my thumbs press
will ever be heard.


"Text ~ Carol Ann Duffy

If you text someone, and you just get an emoticon back, it's over. ~ Riki Lindhome

Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation. ~ Scot McKnight

Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language. ~ Roland Barthes

I can't text. My fingers are too big. ~ Denis Leary

On the one hand we need the image of "the text" in order to focus on anything at all; on the other hand we use the metaphor of "reading" to signal that our apprehension of a text will always be partial, that we never quite reach the "text itself," a realization that has led certain critics to question the very existence of such an object. ~ Espen J. Aarseth

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text. ~ Philip Pullman

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. ~ Isaac Mayer Wise

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing. ~ Roland Barthes

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity ... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. ~ Paulo Freire

She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging. ~ Keith Gessen

Text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, ~ Erin Hunter

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. ~ Alberto Manguel

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences. ~ Ezra Klein

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. ~ Robert Gottlieb

The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street. ~ Pete Hamill

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal. ~ Mike DeWine

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. ~ Mark Twain

I get a text from my grandfather informing me that my grandmother is cooking us dinner. His text ended with the word "roast," preceded by a hash tag. ~ Colleen Hoover

Open text is one of a pair of terms popularized by Eco to refer to kinds of interpretative interactions between text and reader. An open text, unlike a closed one such as a work of popular fiction, is not aimed at a specific reader in a specific social context. It is also open in that its theme, structure and language are more complex, less explicit, more "open-ended": what other critics as Barthes in reception theory would call "Indeterminate". The open text constructs the model of its own reader as part of its structural strategy. ~ Katie Wales

The text is a limited field of possible constructions. ~ Paul Ricoeur

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. ~ Matt Mullenweg

Rigor is not an attribute of a text but rather a characteristic of our behavior with that text. ~ G. Kylene Beers

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text?
I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need. ~ Diana Athill

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' ~ William Shatner

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? ~ Jami Attenberg

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. ~ Piers Anthony

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text. ~ Nate Powell

She had received a text message from him: I had the urge to text somebody who's smart, hot, and sweet ... but sending messages to myself is just pathetic, so hi. ~ Suzanne Wright

Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging. ~ Jacques Derrida

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ~ Umberto Eco

No text message will ever replace the first kiss. ~ Tom Brokaw

No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information ~ Veronica Roth

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. ~ Willie Nelson

I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes. ~ Rob Roberge

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. ~ Mikko Hypponen

The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority. ~ Stacey D'Erasmo

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing. ~ Penny Marshall

I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk. ~ Rich Sommer

Separate text from context and all that remains is a con. ~ Stewart Stafford

Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up. ~ Ryan Sheckler

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

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. ~ Paul McCartney

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. ~ Eric Whitacre

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ~ James Madison

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones. ~ Chelsea Clinton

My rule of thumb is that a text longer than a single line must be of an emotional nature, and not worthy of my time. ~ Reham Khan

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. ~ Lydia Davis

My hands are way too big to text. I'd need short hand for my hands. -Foot to Pad ~ Ray Palla

There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree. ~ Greg Behrendt

Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
pg vi ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. ~ Louise Rosenblatt

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. ~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. ~ Elizabeth Warren

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. ~ Barry Diller

I told them I didn't have time for this bullshit, and if either of them wanted to ask a lady out, he could do it by text message like a normal person. ~ Robin Sloan

Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text. ~ Richard Rohr

Parents can do three things to make reading active. (1) Elaborate and explain the text to the child. This extends and deepens the experience of the story. (2) Relate the story to the child's own experiences. An interest in reading and understanding the meaning of the text occur if there is 'further information' to personalize the text. (3) Ask questions to ensure the child understands the story, thinks about the characters and plot, and extends their imagination. ~ Colin Baker

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and every phrase is the translation of another sign and another phrase. However, this argument can be turned around without losing any of its validity: all texts are original because every translation is distinctive. Every translation, up to a certain point, is an invention and as such it constitutes a unique text. ~ Octavio Paz

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books. ~ Steven Magee

We hold that the sender of a text message can potentially be liable if an accident is caused by texting, but only if the sender knew that the recipient would view the text while driving and thus be distracted. ~ Anonymous

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it. ~ Kelly Lynch

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work. ~ William J. Brennan

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to. ~ N. T. Wright

Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In ~ Neil R. Lightfoot

It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human. ~ Edward W. Said

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now. ~ Bartlett Sher

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job. ~ Denise Mina

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ~ John M. McHugh

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. ~ Alison Jackson

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound ... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president. ~ George Tenet

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. ~ Robert Wilson

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

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made. ~ David Mitchell

I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!' ~ Lucy Hale

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Call the fire department," I said, trying hard to stay calm.
"On it." Bess said, digging into her pocket. "I'll text 911."
"Don't text, call!" I said, feeling my heart pounding in the chest. ~ Carolyn Keene

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language). ~ Roland Barthes

Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind. ~ Maria Popova

Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.
Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient. ~ India Knight

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. ~ Dick Bruna

People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power). ~ Nicholson Baker

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command. ~ Walter Benjamin

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? ~ Antonin Scalia

Each reader of the same text, like each lover of the same woman (or the other way around), modulates that text, transforms that lover, finds in it/her/him something that has never been discovered before. ~ Lee A. Siegel

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping. ~ George Wendt

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text. ~ D. A. Carson