Literate Quotes

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

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.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.

I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.