Bridges Quote by Marcel Marceau

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

— Karl Pilkington

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of…

— Richard Dawkins

“The age of the world picture is not concerned with a visual picturing, with mimesis, but rather with a modelling or framing of the…

— Barbara Bolt

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined…

— David E. Cooper

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

— John von Neumann

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

— Henry David Thoreau

All words have life cycles.

— Erin McKean

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Words are life”

— Markus Zusak

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple…

— Amy Tan

“Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to…

— Irvin D. Yalom