“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.” IfsWayWantCommunicationMachinesFavorsScreeningTextingAnswering Machines Author:Pat Gillick
“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.” WayFeelingsFormLanguageTechnologyOriginalsTexting Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: "Sorry, just got your text!” PeopleLyingFoundStudyYeahSorryTextingPeople Lie Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Scott Brooks you mean the world to me. I love you. You as a man, I never met anybody like you. So selfless. You don't take the credit for nothing, Even though you deserve all of it. I love you and your family for always taking me in, Believing in me, Texting me late at night when I was going crazy. Thank you. Thank you.” MenWorldBelieveMeanNightCrazyLove YouLike YouMetsLateDeserveCreditOur FamilyNbaSelflessBrooksTextingMvpGoing CrazyMean The World To MeYou Mean The World To Me Author:Kevin Durant
“Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it. Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveI CanKidsWantedLastsNightCan DoJourneyLove YouTaughtBrotherPrayingMy FamilyGladMy BrotherNbaEvery NightVersesUp And DownI PrayFootstepsI Can Do ItAfarTextingMvpBible VersePraying For You Author:Kevin Durant
“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?” ThinkingLettersStructurePunctuationTexting Author:John H. McWhorter
“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!” IfsEnoughCareDon't CareFlirtingTextingFlirty Author:Lauren Graham
“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.” LooksHelpingArtistNightSongSweetBrokenMonthsMetsMessagesIndiaMy FavoriteAll TimeFairyAll NightTextingBroken UpText MessageFavorite ArtistGodmotherFairy GodmotherReally Sweet Author:Ariana Grande
“Perk, from the minute you got here... I hated you before you got here... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you.” MenMeanWholeMomentsNightGamesMinutesChangedLatePerceptionToughHatedJust OneTeammateHumblingTextingPerksBest TeamLate NightMvpTough Games Author:Kevin Durant
“Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.” WayWritingSpeechTexting Author:John H. McWhorter
“I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.” WayUseCommunicateTexting Author:Dave Gahan
“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.” PeopleThinkingFacesSocialRealizingEffortForeverRiskIncludingPostsOnlineShelvesSocial NetworkTextingShelf Life Author:Mark Cuban
“If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.” IfsKnowsLooksChanceActiveOur FamilyOnlineTextingGood Chance Author:Mark Cuban
“I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.” WantSaidImportantRealSeemsMajorsDisasterNastyIphoneMy BoyfriendTextingIphone 5 Author:Eli Roth
“I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.” WellsI CanImagineHugeCommunicationAppreciateEfficiencyTelephonesTexting Author:Jason Bateman
“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.” ThinkingShouldTypePercentMirrorsFocusedScreensDrivingKeyboardsBannedTextingLooking AheadTexting And Driving Author:Allan McNish
“You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.” IfsWellsMeanMightLyingGuyMinutesSixTextingHarvey Author:Steve Harvey
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindDifferentSometimesWholeSeemsTodayEnergyRoomsSituationEmotionalComfortableDistanceMeetingsDifferent WaysDesperateEnergeticParticipantsTextingRomantic Relationship Author:Ivan Reitman
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesTheaterScreensAnnoyingGlowingTexting Author:Wes Craven
“We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.” ThinkingWantUseEasyEffortSeriousPicksPhonesExtrasPhone CallsTextingCrutchesExtra Effort Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.” WayWantPlayGirlAsksDifferencesLike YouMessagesResponsePhonesMaking A DifferenceGet BackPhone CallsTextingText MessagePower PlayGet A Girl Author:Michael B. Jordan
“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.” PeopleKindTodayRoomsDistanceParticipantsTextingRomantic RelationshipMailing Author:Ivan Reitman
“Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.” IfsTryingSeemsCareAnswersLike YouDon't CareTexting Author:Rob Zombie
“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.” YearsChildrenPersonsHandsYoungMotherBabyBallsBusyPhonesPityCellsHolding OnCell PhoneTextingBest YearTrivialityArtefacts Author:Mario Bunge
“There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.” FeelsWarFieldsPaidPhonesPrisonerTechnologicalFrontiersTextingPrisoner Of War Author:Padgett Powell
“As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.” PeopleWayMindYoungSpiritLiteraturePleasureActivityTexting Author:Katherine Paterson
“In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.” PeopleWorldWantLittlesTodaySpeakBitsWorryStreetsDangerCoupleWalkingActivityLittle BitTraditionTextingToday's WorldJewish Tradition Author:Ruth Westheimer
“It's so fun to be on a show where we're all on our toes, all the time. We're constantly texting each other and calling each other while we're reading and go, "Oh, my gosh, I can't believe you do that! Holy cow! This is crazy!" Sometimes it's a bit more procedural. Sometimes it's a bit more emotional. We get the best of all genres, in one little package.” BelieveLittlesI CanSometimesShowsReadingFunBitsCrazyEmotionalHolyCallingGenreCowsToesPackagesTextingOh My Gosh Author:Devin Kelley
“I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.” ThinkingKidsLanguageTermInterestingInternetRiteTextingNexusAlarmists Author:Bill Walsh
“Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".” MightTypeDaughterEvidenceGeekTextingPotassium Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Bros. and Sony, and all that, because they haven't kept their attention and challenged them. They're smart little kids that are bored, and I wanted to challenge them.” ThinkingLittlesKidsWantedChallengesAttentionHavensSmartTheaterTriumphBoredApplesLittle KidIphoneTextingMovie TheaterBrosSonyWarner Bros Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.” IfsAirBallsDrivingTextingJugglingTexting And Driving Author:Robin Williams
“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.” SchoolGenerationsTerribleMachinesOld SchoolTextingAnswering MachinesOlder Generation Author:Igor Levit
“I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.” MachinesTextingAnswering Machines Author:Igor Levit
“Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.” WritingLawLettersDrivingCaliforniaPreventingTexting Author:Craig Ferguson
“I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.” ChildrenCenturyMachinesPhones21st CenturyPhone CallsTextingAnswering Machines Author:Brendan Dooling
“I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanNationsGrowingPlanetsThirdsNervousMassiveRapidsUnprecedentedNervous SystemTexting Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment.” IfsPersonsMomentsRealizingPhonesFactorsJealousBetrayDeceivingLive In The MomentTextingBeing Jealous Author:Crystal Reed
“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.” ThinkingMatterKidsTechnologyLike YouPhonesMobileYoutubeTextingMobile Phones Author:Jared Gilman
“There's nothing better than having an experience now that's the exact same thing I would've done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward "I like you" message to someone. The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there's something really charming and calming about that.” WayDoneMightHappensLike YouMessagesPhrasesAwkwardCharmingCalmingTextingI Like You Author:Alan Palomo
“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.” WayFeelsConversationMy FavoritePhonesCommunicateClosestTexting Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute... er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.” KindCoursesWaitingEmotionFansMinutesTheoryPagesNightmareEmailBerriesTextingWeb Page Author:Christine Sneed
“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.” IfsThinkingGivingLittlesHappensHappenedHappeningsWake UpAccidentsDrivingTextingWake Up CallTexting And Driving Author:Victoria Justice
“Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.” FacesThreeBlackComedyFourCryCoupleEmptyWake UpHolesIceUpsetBreakupYour FaceCreamIce CreamBlack HoleTextingMascaraItunesBlackouts Author:Rumer Willis
“I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.” PeopleDoeAgeYoungMillionsAudienceSawsTestsFunctionResponseDrivingCuriousReleaseDriversYoutubePhenomenalTextingTexting And Driving Author:Werner Herzog
“On Facebook, Twitter, texting, e-mails, remember, it's a mode of communication, it is not communication. It's not real life. So step aside, make sure people see something other than the top of your head and live in real time, in the real world.” PeopleWorldRealRememberStepsCommunicationReal LifeReal WorldMailTexting Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.” StillsSeemsUsedLostFunctionOriginalsSacredUsed To BeEmailRemindersTextingPostcardsMemento Author:Elaine Equi
“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.” KnowsYearsWould BeKidsFormCommunicationTenYears AgoTexting Author:Amy Klobuchar
“Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.” PeopleNextGamesMy OwnCarSafeFolksVideoWheelsMakeupRidingMotorcycleTextingChecking Out Author:Hugh Laurie