Ideographic Writing Quotes & Sayings

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good. — Will Rogers

There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this transition between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago: signs that began as pictures came to represent meaningful units of sound. Because the basic unit was the word, thousands of distinct symbols were required. This is efficient in one way, inefficient in another. Chinese unifies an array of distinct spoken languages: people who cannot speak to one another can write to one another. It employs at least fifty thousand symbols, about six thousand commonly used and known to most literate Chinese. In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun + moon = brightness and east + east = everywhere. The process of compounding creates surprises: grain + knife = profit; hand + eye = look. — James Gleick

It is because we know God's will that we may say to Him: God, we want You to do this thing, we are determined that You do it, You cannot but do it. — Watchman Nee

The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change. — Felix Abt

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd. — Joni Mitchell

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.' — Jermain Defoe

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.

And I thought that even before I had sex with him. — Jojo Moyes

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson

At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly. — Holly Cupala

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I meant to behave. There were just too many other options.
T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. — Robert Louis Stevenson