Signifiers Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always…
— Tilda Swinton
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The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing…
— Casey Legler
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own…
— John Updike
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation…
— Jacques Lacan
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The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some…
— Paul Di Filippo
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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all…
— Roman Jakobson
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Our talents are signifiers that lead us toward our unique paths. Follow your passion and you will soon discover where you fit in this world.
— Senora Roy
Who Wrote These Signifiers Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Signifiers Quotes as follows: