Txt Message Quotes

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? John McWhorter

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you. Sherry Turkle

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication – it’s like passing a note – and this means we should be very careful what we use it for. Lynne Truss

Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever. Aziz Ansari

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don’t care. We are all sneaks now. Lynne Truss I find texting to be kind of a safe space. Mary H.K. Choi

I mean, my students are texting me all the time. It could be 10 o’clock at night, ‘Hey Dr. B., can you check my thesis statement?’ You know, I’m in bed! Jill Biden

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language. David Crystal

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can’t say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don’t understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. Sean Berdy

I’m rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it’s been weeks since I’ve actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what’s going on without interrupting what I’m doing. Steve Huffman

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They’re mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting. Chelsea Clinton

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. Carol Ann Duffy

People try to function in the real world – the analog world – while they’re texting in the digital world, and they run into the car in front of them. It doesn’t work to be in both. Joe Walsh

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. Danielle Steel

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things. Nick Cave

I think when you’re starting up a situation, it’s really fun texting or BBMing or whatever. Carly Pope

I’d rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I’d rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a – acceptable to some – synonym. Will Self Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we’ve fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. John McWhorter

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don’t want them to be dated. Sarah Dessen

I don’t take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don’t really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. Tyne Daly

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over. Michael Weatherly

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters. Lorene Scafaria

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you’ve got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else. Jarvis Cocker