140 Character Quotes

#1. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

#2. The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Seth Godin

#3. Is that how you're supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other's social media pages?

Alexandra Potter

#4. NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Stephen Colbert

#5. I'd be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.

Bruce Crown

#6. I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Neil Gaiman

#7. The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Piero Scaruffi

#8. Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#9. People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

James Gleick

#10. If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

Jen Lancaster

#11. An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose.

Jonathan Capehart

#12. We live in a world where we can connect with anyone via our phones and 140-character messages.

Preeti Shenoy

#13. While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

Rachel Sklar

#14. Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.

Roxane Gay

#15. The more we learn and stretch our comfort zone, the better our ability will be.

Kishore Bansal

#16. In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

Penelope Cruz

#18. No matter the height of the mountain, the climbing is the same.

Leigh Bardugo

#19. dresses, some of the girls in clothes which

P.D. James

#20. If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

Joyce Meyer

#21. She ran into the early-October afternoon. The light came at a low slant through the oaks across the street, gold and green, and how she loved that light. There was no light in the world like you saw in New England in early fall.

Joe Hill

#22. Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.

Sherman Alexie

#23. People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

Nick Thune

#24. I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

Sarah Dessen

#25. Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.

Deepak Chopra

#26. Most of my novels were developped from dreams I had. A dreamer I AM! Literally , at 1 AM. A dream with 140 characters is to dream an impossible dream. Too many characters to develoo from it. But in twitter that worked just fine for me,

Ana Claudia Antunes

#27. I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

Rashida Jones

#28. Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

Carrie Brownstein

#29. I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Miley Cyrus

#30. Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

#31. We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

Peter Thiel

#32. Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella,

Ai Weiwei

#33. To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one's right to photograph. You're flexing that right.

Trevor Paglen

#34. It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

LZ Granderson

#35. So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

Rio Ferdinand

#36. Nature is upheld by antagonism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#38. For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#39. Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-

Hugh Howey