The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings. — Marcel Carne Copy Share Image
I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've… — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
