Lotman Semiosfera Quotes & Sayings

She's the kind of person who can lick everything but a stamp. — Mark Olmsted

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing. — Martha Graham

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. — Anita Hill

When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it. — Kevin Bleyer

It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all tests. No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a slave; no judge would would appear covered with broad arrows. But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity. The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern. — G.K. Chesterton

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany

That which the external world perceives as quite motionless has the appearance of being quite at rest. However much it may change, in relation to the external world it always stays at rest. This principle governs all self-modifications. That is why the beautiful appears so much at rest. Everything beautiful is a self-illuminated, perfect individual. — Novalis

I don't know, I haven't read the handbook, but my guess is, bikers don't do royal weddings. More like, rowdy weddings that end in someone gettin' stuck with a knife. — Kristen Ashley

Maybe those guileless eyes can see though me. Control is my middle name — E.L. James

I'm not planning on getting married any time soon," I told her, and she said that she wished she could say the same for dying. — Anonymous

I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done. — Tony Hale

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance. — Ralph Caplan

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. — Anne Michaels

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. — John Dewey

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon