Logographic Writing Quotes & Sayings

A thrilling, brilliant and electrifying life is yours the moment you wake-up. — Bryant McGill

The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They stumble around, arms out, moaning. And if they get a hold of you, they suck the energy out of you. — Cindi Madsen

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

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me. — Alan Furst

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. — Oliver Goldsmith

It was unreal how two souls could look out through the same set of eyes in such drastically different fashion, seeming to reshape them entirely. — Laini Taylor

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. — Arthur Smith

Why are you acting like such a brat? — John Green

Don't think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory. — Kami Garcia

Nostalgia is a lane of calm comfort, charming even a complacent heart! — Balroop Singh

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian