Polysemy In Semantics Quotes & Sayings

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you. — Tom Robbins

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve. — Dan Phillips

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast! — Jim Diamond

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. — Nikola Tesla

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. — Samuel Johnson

Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we've written to anyone else. — Daniel J. Siegel

She laughs and it's my favorite song in the world. — A Meredith Walters

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn. — Eudora Welty

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. — Sarah Jessica Parker