140 Characters Or Less Quotes

#1. Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.

Jordin Sparks

#2. Oh, I'm following President Obama on Twitter. I like my black history in 140 characters or less.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#3. Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Erik Qualman

#4. 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

#5. Thiel rejects the small-mindedness of most of the Valley's entrepreneurialism. The motto of Founders Fund is: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." But

Richard Byrne Reilly

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

Roxane Gay

#7. Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

David Tang

#8. A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.

Kevin Systrom

#9. The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Matt Mullenweg

#10. Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill - plus no
heart and a serious abuse of the English language
to break up with someone in fewer than 140
characters.

Julie James

#11. 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

#12. I love reading things on twitter its all well within my attention span of 140 characters.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. Writers are b*tc*ing about 140 characters. If you can't make a point in two sentences, how good is that book of yours really going to be?
Taken from Twitter Titters Volume 1 edited by John Rice

A.W. Tozer

#14. As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.

Mariella Frostrup

#15. Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

Matt Mullenweg

#16. The man glanced up. "Hello. Tweeter tells me you're Kody, a fellow Mundanian, newly arrived, and you want to compare notes." "Uh, yes, in essence," Kody agreed, taken aback. All that from one tweet? Well, maybe it did fit within 140 characters.

Piers Anthony

#17. It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

Anna Kendrick

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

Nick Thune

#19. Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

Stephen Colbert

#20. There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Richard Dawkins

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

Rio Ferdinand

#22. How would you describe the #feeling of #love in 140 or less characters?
Answer : Like somebody is gripping your heart, but you don't want them to let go because the ache would worsen without them.

Claire Contreras

#23. I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

Donald Trump

#24. 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

#25. I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Joanne Kelly

#26. Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

David Harsanyi

#27. I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

Matt Mullenweg

#28. And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.

Bernie Sanders

#29. I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

Barry Diller

#30. 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

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

LZ Granderson

#32. The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

Shawn Amos

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

Ai Weiwei

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

Peter Thiel

#35. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#36. You may actually be the only person who gets more than 140 characters from me. That's kind of awesome, right?

Becky Albertalli

#37. The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

Kurt Sutter

#38. Limited to 140 characters to confess sins and meet his Maker,
"tweeting" may not have been the best use of his final moments.

Robert K. Blechman