Nonlinguistic Quotes & Sayings

Are you aiming for our make-up to be
the shortest in history or what? — Kristen Ashley

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina ... She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way.
When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out. — Auberon Waugh

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called "normal" functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way? — Jacques Derrida

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb. — Erika Hall

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate — Geri Halliwell

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well. — Christina Milian

Believers in progress rightly note that in the world of machines the new model supersedes the old; from this they falsely infer a similar kind of supercession in such things as virtue and wisdom. — C.S. Lewis

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world. — Lance Armstrong

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson

I told her there was hope for the Big Apple yet. "It all depends on our ability to devise a set of robust arguments favoring either scientific materialism or theistic revelation and then communicating the salient points to the Martians in their nonlinguistic language, which was apparently deciphered several years ago by a paranoid schizophrenic named Annie Porlock," I told Valerie. "That's not a sentence you hear every day," she replied. — James Morrow Jr..

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts. — John Adams

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself. — Anne Parillaud