Semiotics Examples Quotes & Sayings

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down ... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions. — Francis Bacon

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle. — Julie Payette

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all? — Joseph Delaney

Your life is a poetry, it just needs some interpretation. — Debasish Mridha

Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends. — Nana Awere Damoah

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future. — John Galliano

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. — Joichi Ito

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies. — Aaron Eckhart

Oh it is not without scathe that one is gentle, courteous, reasonable, patient, day after day, year after year. — Samuel Beckett

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. — Sigmund Freud

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture. — Hans Hofmann

But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time — Robert Smith