Semiosis Quotes & Sayings

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love. — Paul O'Brien

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. — Teresa Mummert

Heaven only knows why we love it so. — Michael Cunningham

I don't think I can even imagine what a culture that's been developing steadily for a billion years ought to be like. Disembodied electrical essences, maybe. Ghostly creatures flitting in and out of the eighth, ninth, and tenth dimensions. Cosmic minds that know all, perceive all, understand all. Maybe — Robert Silverberg

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language). — Roland Barthes

When one is speaking of the essence of things, it often happens that one can only speak in generalities. Concrete things capture one's attention, but they are often a little more than trivia. The more one tires to see into the distance, the more generalized things become. — Haruki Murakami

one of the many prohibitions in the Disney College Program is that we are not allowed any pets - not even a fish. — Katie Hudson

the real is actually the intersubjective meaning arrived at by a community in semiosis. One — Paul Cobley

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. — Mo Yan

The affective modalities of semiosis, in Halliday's functional analysis, are most concerned with the imaginative and the personal functions. Consider for example the ways in which the dialogism I have described above accord with Halliday's insistence that the — Anonymous

The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant." — Ibn Ata Allah

One of the biggest ways we lose time is not knowing where we're going next. — Rory Vaden

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing. — Drake Bell

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am ... — Rob Waldrop

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment. — Renee O'Connor

We can contain such secret misery, perversion. — Ben Marcus

Secrecy is for losers ... It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan