#based

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#directly #evoke #institutions #might #nearly

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#beautiful #beethoven #elements #i #i think

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#any #based #dollars #federal #hire

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#behave #else #enough #evening #going

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#always #appealed #based #been #bottles

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late! ↗

— Jane Siberry

#before #conscious #decisions #few #gain

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad. ↗

— Kurtwood Smith

#away #based #came #character #creators

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#based #because #die #hairspray #i

We are living in a world where everything is based on security. ↗

— Alain Robert

#everything #living #security #where #world