Textual Quotes

#1. There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

F.F. Bruce

#2. We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Barbara Kruger

#3. Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Mitch Kapor

#4. I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

#5. The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

David Foster Wallace

#6. When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Juan Goytisolo

#7. No cardinal or essential doctrine is altered by any textual variant that has plausibility of going back to the original. The evidence for that has not changed to this day.

Lee Strobel

#8. I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

F.F. Bruce

#10. I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

K.d. Lang

#11. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#12. When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Alexander Kluge

#13. A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.

Samuel Ray Cummings

#14. Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

Peter Gabriel

#15. Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Tom Stoppard

#16. Use services like Clearly by Evernote, which strips the non-textual part

Tyrone Jackson

#17. It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism.

J. Cammenga

#18. You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

Richard Dawkins

#19. From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage.

Richard K. Morgan

#20. In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases.

Asma Barlas

#21. Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

Barbara Johnson

#22. I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Matthea Harvey

#23. By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Norman McLaren

#24. You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

Masha Tupitsyn

#25. The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Barbara Kruger

#27. Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

Patrice Pavis

#28. I did not have textual relations with that server.

Hillary Clinton

#29. Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

Daniel B. Wallace

#31. Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;
Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171

Edwin A. Abbott

#33. Regardless of its textual component, Noh is ultimately indescribable, like sexual ecstasy; what consoles me for my failure of language is the fact that so is everything else. Moreover, Noh aspires to indescribability.

William T. Vollmann

#34. Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.

Thomas Pynchon

#35. Orthodox Christians must not stoop to conquer.

Edward F. Hills