Walter Ong Quotes

#1. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

Neil Postman

#2. Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

Davy Crockett

#4. My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter ...

Savannah Guthrie

#5. I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch.

Autumn Doughton

#6. Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

Walter J. Ong

#7. Honey," she said, smiling so widely that I thought her face might split into two. "Are you about to make your momma proud?

J. Lynn

#8. I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

Glenda Bailey

#9. Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.

Walter J. Ong

#10. Music is the strength of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I don't believe in raw evil."
Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

Howard Stringer

#13. For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

Walter J. Ong

#14. God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

#17. The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

Jim Cymbala

#18. There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

Walter J. Ong

#19. Learners are doers, not recipients.

Walter J. Ong

#20. So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

Billy Collins