#text

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going. ↗

— David Ohle

#age

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information

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

— Antonin Scalia

#halfway #interpretation #like #mean #means

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#always #around #come #dimension #feeling

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#built #close #demolished #destruction #gaza

Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought. “All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #digital-textbook #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

Can`t you see that I`m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb? ↗

— Titus Petronius Niger

#humour #irony #latin #nonsense #satyre

In the broader spiritual realities, no rites or rituals are necessary to know God. NONE. Any religion that insists you can come to intimate knowledge of the Divine by any means other than stillness, self-awareness, and unity with consciousness is deceptive. So-called holy texts are about religion, not necessarily about God. They are really owners manuals for faith traditions. I am not denouncing them altogether, as I love the Bible and have studied it reverently all my life. But I don't view the Bible as the inspired word OF God as much as the inspired word of men ABOUT God, as they perceive God through their often jaded, human perspectives. Again, I respect these so-called sacred writings. I would just like to see them read and placed in their proper, less idolatrous, place. ↗

— Carlton D. Pearson

#faith

WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire. ↗

— Harriet Evans

#drunken-behaviour #funny #texting #funny