#signs

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#bringing #importance #into #language #new

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#bow #culture #equally #find #gods

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#designs #exact #exact measure #had #her

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#corners #expect #hold #i #lot

Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#nature

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#bbq #humor #signs #wolf #wolves

I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent. ↗

— Diane Schoemperlen

#faith

...Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed. It puts parents in very foul moods--and since you're probably there to visit relatives, their mood was pretty touch and go to begin with. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#helpfulness #humor #road-signs #travel #family

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

#forgiveness

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conscious #control #controlled #effort #envy