Thomas Sebeok Quotes & Sayings

Monday-morning faces: sagging, gaunt, braced, resigned. — Robert Galbraith

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other — Thucydides

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes. — David Lynch

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say. — Jason Scott Lee

The persecuting spirit has its origin ... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. — John Fiske

The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Darcy was continually giving offense. — Jane Austen

Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance.
Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already. — Jude Watson

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth. — Johannes Kepler