“ To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ”
- Alan Moore- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ”
- Jimmy Carter- Copy
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“ The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. ”
- Werner Herzog- Copy
- 2.7K
“ To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. ”
- Martin Buber- Copy
- 3.9K
“ No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. ”
- Gandhi- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
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“ I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. ”
- Michael Moore- Copy
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“ It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
- 414
“ The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
- 875
“ It seems to me that it is a very simple error which the surrealists are guilty of; they are trying to establish an Absolute. They are trying with all the powers of consciousness to usher in the glory of the Unconscious. They believe in the Devil but not in God… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes. ”
- Alexandra Ripley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Kindness may be achieved by all, rich and poor, learned and illiterate. Brilliance of mind and capacity for deep thinking have rendered great service to humanity, but by themselves they are impotent to dry a tear or mend a broken heart. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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