Famous quotes containing the words sign, language and/or user:
“Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-makers pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
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