#literate

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#computer #literate #nearly #our #parents

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#chance #having #healthy #i #i think

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#illiterate #lot #quite #read

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were. ↗

— Peter Scott

#american way #area #complete #doing #exactly

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#defeat #force #history #ideologies #longer

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#because #began #had #her #i

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ↗

— David Antin

#between #distinctions #i #i am #literate

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. ↗

— Yanni

#being #illiterate #music #read #same

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

#altogether #appear #bad #bad thing #believed