Top 24 Being Literate Quotes
#1. For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Alan Watts
#3. On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.
Steven Cojocaru
#4. I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.
Peter Davis
#5. Anyone literate can take an implement in hand and make marks on a flat surface. Being a writer, however, seems to be a socially acknowledged role, and one that carries some sort of weight or impressive significance - we hear a capital W on Writer.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.'
Pandemonium broke out.
Rick Riordan
#7. The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.
Jerome Bruner
#8. After many years of his melancholy he realized that love
as understood by most of the people in the world, is mostly love of
the intellect, of the mind. It associates them with certain image of
love which a person has seen, read or heard.
Raj Doctor
#9. I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.
Wendell Berry
#10. I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.
Santosh Kalwar
#11. Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.
Steve Erickson
#12. Asuka ... you're really cute. When I look at you ... I start wanting to protect you.
Aya Kanno
#14. The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
#15. In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.
Steven Heller
#18. I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.
Alonso Duralde
#19. You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.
Neil Simon
#20. Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Andrew Marvell
#21. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#22. It is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#23. To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
Virginia Woolf
#24. I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
Yves Chauvin
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