Best 140 Character Quotes

#1. In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Alana Stewart

#2. I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Tim Roth

#3. 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

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Piero Scaruffi

#8. Perhaps I have too much anger of my own to tell. If a
man is steeped in bitter anger every day of his life, how then
would he notice a small additional fi re? Particularly when the
fi re comes in the presence of . . .

Tina Connolly

#9. I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out.
pg. 33

Jeannette Walls

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

Nick Thune

#11. It's amazing how we wake up every day and just take for granted that life will go on. We know the reality that it will end at some point, yet we still wake up every morning believing deeply, that we will live forever.

Benjamin J. Carey

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

Neil Gaiman

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Colen

#17. 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

#18. What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Paul LePage

#19. 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

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

Peter Thiel

#21. 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

#22. I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

Miles Davis

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

Seth Godin

#24. 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

#25. I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

Vivian Campbell

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

Rio Ferdinand

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

LZ Granderson

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

Ai Weiwei

#29. A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - I'M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, 'Yes. Yes, you are.

David Arnold

#30. All stress begins with one negative thought.

Rhonda Byrne

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

Preeti Shenoy

#32. 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

#33. You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

Sebastian Bach

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Roxane Gay