Human life Quote by Philip Hensher

“• “To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few…

— Jared Diamond

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had…

— Mark Twain

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

— Lawrence Durrell

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs…

— Maryanne Wolf

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of…

— Bill Forsyth

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like…

— Pablo Neruda

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...

— Marshall McLuhan

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret…

— Lisa See

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

— Kat Duff

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art…

— Wole Soyinka