Post Literate Quotes

#1. It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

Jack Nicholson

#3. Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

Gary Shteyngart

#4. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.

Glenn Schiraldi

#5. Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Stephen King

#6. Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

David P. Gushee

#7. I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

Carolina Herrera

#8. The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

J.M. Roberts

#9. We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use.

Adam Phillips

#10. You were the centre of my universe. Everything else spun around you.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#12. With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Aaron Sorkin

#13. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

Ram Dass

#14. I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

Kevin O'Leary

#15. Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Stephen Kinzer