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Quotes About Texting

Autocorrect can happen to anyone, but I seriously don't understand what goes on between him and his phone.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
JAMES STILL HADN'T RETURNED Kick's texts, which meant he was deep into programming or, more likely, playing Skyrim. Kick knew he wouldn't deal well with this
~ Chelsea Cain
The worst wait in life is waiting for someone to text back. Riya
~ Chetan Bhagat
There is no greater adventure than a magical journey through last night's drunk texts.
~ Internet meme
If people winked in real life as much as they do in texts, the world would be a pretty creepy place.
~ Internet meme
Tyrannosaurus drives. Tyrannosaurus texts. Tyrannosaurus rex.
~ Author Unknown
Intexticated: distracted by the act of texting to such a degree that one seems intoxicated.
~ Author Unknown
WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.
~ Harriet Evans
B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!
~ Lenore Look
You do understand that your life isn't normal, right?' 'Barrel was texting and he stepped off the curb without looking,' I said. 'But you were here,' Morelli said. 'How does it happen that you're always in the precise spot when disaster strikes? Your car's been blown up how many times? And it's never your fault. Remember when you fell off a fire escape into dog diarrhea? And the time you dated a serial killer?' 'I liked that serial killer,' Lula said. 'He could make a damn good pork chop.
~ Janet Evanovich
Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.
~ Will Self
I texted one of the writers I said, 'I have this crazy idea, I think I have to play Fran Lebowitz on Update.' The next day, Anna Drezen, our head writer, texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on Update.'
~ Bowen Yang
There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. Hallmark doesn't make a card for everything, so sometimes we make a judgment call. No, I don't mean texting. My motto is: if you're grateful, get a pen.
~ Helen Ellis
There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
George a text telling him she had arrived safely, and she was asleep before her head hit the pillow. — And at the Soho Grand, Charles sent his ex-wife Gina one last text before he went to bed, and hoped she would respond in
~ Danielle Steel
rant to Yasmin as I thump out the text message to my boyfriend Stuart.
~ Unknown
I press send on the text.
~ Unknown
She presses send and then exhales and rests the phone on her lap.
~ Lisa Jewell
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
she loathed all the IM and texting abbreviations and acronyms. She was a snob like that
~ Jessica Park
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas