#ages

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#better #four #had #hard #i

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#branch #general #language #languages #laws

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. ↗

— Dan Savage

#canadian #civil #equality #front #full

Being a novelty had its advantages. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#being #had #novelty

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. ↗

— John Sayles

#boots #compared #did #extras #god

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#been #change #difficult #i #life

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #anything #big #big issue #chicago

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#consideration #only #ruled #world