Famous quotes containing the words sign, language and/or interpreters:
“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses,for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it,not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Language is filled
with words for deprivation
images so familiar
it is hard to crack language open
into that other country
the country of being.”
—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)
“Hence anyone who seeks for the true cause of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them as a fool, is set down and denounced as a impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
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