#messages

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#austen #authors #because #best #books

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#average #average american #day #every #girl

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture. ↗

— Richard Morris

#drawn #mainly #messages #rhythms #secular

But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? ↗

— Andrew Hussie

#subliminal-messages #technology #imagination

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#body #body image #brain #clothes #comfortable

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#film #i #messages #office #post

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do? ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#me #messages #move #other #phone

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bombarded #campbell #career #like #many

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. ↗

— John Updike

#bodies #female #glowing #male #messages

No, I'm serious," Frankie insisted, fed up with being silenced. "Why didn't you just make me a normie?" Viktor sighed. "Because that's not who we are. We're special. And I'm very proud that. You should be, too." "Proud?" Frankie spat out the word as if it had been soaked in nail polish remover. "How can I be proud when everyone is telling me to hide?" "I'm telling you to hide so you'll be safe. But you can still feel proud of who you are," he explained, like it really was that simple. "Pride has to come from within you and stay with you, no matter what people say." Huh? Frankie crossed her arms and looked away. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#danger #family-fights #hidden #mixed-messages #paradoxes