Quotes about twitter
Don Roff -
Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
Ankala V Subbarao -
Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved!
Heather Christle -
Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.
Amy King - I'm the Man Who Loves You
OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~
Sara Sheridan -
On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.
Richelle E. Goodrich -
Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.
Walter Kirn -
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Aysha Taryam -
I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure you that most social media trolls have no physical troll land to dwell.
Warren Ellis -
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
Walter Kirn -
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
Rodney Ulyate -
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
Sandra Chami Kassis -
We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.
Kiera Cass -
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.
Kiera Cass -
Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.
E.A. Bucchianeri -
Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...
Sara Sheridan -
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
Scott Lynch -
If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kr
Ana Claudia Antunes -
Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got,If you have guts to write a funny plot!
Steven Magee -
Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark.
Stephen Colbert -
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
Rodney Ulyate -
Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.
Ariel Seraphino -
You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit.
Garry Kasparov -
One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.
EverSkeptic -
Social media has turned all of us into Dogs. The moment a single dog is unhappy with something, it starts barking, and then hundreds of others join the barking immediately. We no longer use our brains, we just join the chorus.
Richard D. Wolff -
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
Wayne Gladstone - Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.
Ashok Kallarakkal -
Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.
Jennifer Harrison - Write like no one is reading 2
Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.
Aysha Taryam -
We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.
Piero Scaruffi -
Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
James Taranto -
Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.
Natasha Tsakos -
If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
Adam Goldberg -
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
Buffy Andrews -
A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.
Jonah Goldberg -
One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.
Wynne McLaughlin -
I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car.
Kevin Pietersen -
This could be addictive.
Aysha Taryam -
The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples’ best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any awkward silence or pause in conversation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Daniel Suarez - Kill Decision
They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. ... It’s amazing what a few people and a little money can accomplish online. Our puppets have turned whole elections. … Everything the public sees is managed. If there’s a valuable brand to protect – whether it’s a person or a dish soap – these fuckers are out there protecting it, shaping t
Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur
F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being
Maureen Johnson -
I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.
Walter Kirn -
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
Goldy Moldavsky - Kill the Boy Band
Isabel's infamous tweets ranged from the cartoonish and impossible:Im going to pull ur tongue out of ur mouth wrap it around ur neck n strangle u w it so hard ur eyes will pop out. i will pee in the sockets.To the quaint:Get ur fcking hands off him bitch i will cut u. #RupertLIsMineTo the cryptically disturbing:I watch u in your sleep.I would never condone Isabel's scary tweets, but you had to give the girl credit for managing to stay under 140 characters every time.
Cassandra Page -
Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.
Ian Lamont - and find information that's relev
Twitter is more than just a collection of fleeting observations about everyday life. Twitter can connect people to events, information and each other in ways that have never been experienced before.
Ian Lamont - and find information that's relev
Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.
Stephen Colbert -
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update.
Brian E. Boyd Sr. - Social Media for the Executive
Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.
E.A. Bucchianeri -
#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.
David Chiles -
Discuss netiquette.xyz internet rules to follow with friends and family. Use the site as a reference. Set boundaries. Share.
Andy Heaton -
Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.
Manasa Rao -
Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it's not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I've invested so much time in the relationship.
Mick Hume -
Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.
David Chiles -
Use the Internet to help your daily life, not replace to replace it. NetworkEtiquette.net
David Chiles -
The Social Networking Netiquette Loop: Read, share, like, and repeat.
Sara Sheridan -
Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.
Deyth Banger -
Hey, why this person blocked me?", "WTF, this guy I know him!", "WTF this guy I don't know but he has send me request???", "Oh,oh That's the famous singer from the TV!! I know that person, I know him?!, I know him!?"... This is called the future - so my question is are you prepared for this?
Jonah Goldberg -
I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!
Glenn Greenwald -
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
Stephen Colbert -
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
Stephen Colbert -
There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).
Glenn Greenwald -
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
Walter Kirn -
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.
Stephen Colbert -
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
Brian E. Boyd Sr. - Social Media for the Executive
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr. - Social Media for the Executive
Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr. - Social Media for the Executive
It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.
Andy Zaltzman -
New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: 'Now I know how Wayne Christ felt after little Jesus came along.
Sarah Silverman -
Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!
Stephen Colbert -
Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.
David Mitchell -
Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and
Jonah Goldberg -
Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
Glenn Greenwald -
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
Glenn Greenwald -
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
Glenn Greenwald -
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
Glenn Greenwald -
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Glenn Greenwald -
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Glenn Greenwald -
I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
Charlie Puth -
I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
Ariel Seraphino -
I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.
Mary Robinette Kowal -
It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.
Stephen Colbert -
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
Stephen Colbert -
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
Glenn Greenwald -
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Glenn Greenwald -
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
Stephen Colbert -
Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.
Stephen Colbert -
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
John Green -
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
Shannon L. Alder -
Stupid quotes are only Twitters in disguise.
Piero Scaruffi -
The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.
Walter Kirn -
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
Christian Rudder - Dataclysm: Who We Are
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
Ryan Lilly -
I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.