Microblogging Quotes & Sayings

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Losing the Internet has forced them to interact verbally instead of microblogging their lives, but a lot of them still talk in Tweets:
"Ugh! I'm standing in line at the post office."
"I'm not eating the crusts on my sandwich because apparently I'm five. — Wayne Gladstone

One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media. — Michael Anti

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool. — Nita Leland

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. — James Laughlin

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov

I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family. — Gary Locke

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Goodbye is too permanent. Goodbye has the risk of never seeing each other again. But good morning is full of possibilities. — Denise Grover Swank

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man. — William Barclay

'Cancer' is such a frightening word. — Kris Carr

The set-up assumes that the game and life are the same thing, and such is the pervasive nature of the idea of the game within the society that just by believing that, they make it so. — Iain M. Banks

The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo. — Rebecca MacKinnon