Saussure Signified Quotes & Sayings

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden. — Bruce Jackson

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. — Charles Bukowski

No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean. — Tim O'Brien

The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later). — Alexander McCall Smith

Every story has a true name. I wish this story's name could be different, but nothing will change it. This story is The Book of You. — Claire Kendal

He would go to the bakery for a cake, and somewhere in the shop-I had never discovered where; it was one of the few secrets I had not fathomed-he kept a candle, which came out on this day every year, was lit, and which I blew out, with as good an impression of happiness as I could muster. Then we ate the cake, with tea, and settled down to quiet digestion and cataloging. — Diane Setterfield

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. — E. O. Wilson

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. — Ferdinand De Saussure

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — G.K. Chesterton

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting. — Teresa De La Parra

Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls' dressing room to the owners' penthouse. However, the newcomer - who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night - is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold. — Carole Nelson Douglas