Appearance Language Quotes

#1. Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Michel Foucault

#2. Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Maybe that was the point of truth
you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again

Scott Westerfeld

#4. I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.

Arsene Wenger

#5. Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

#6. Yes, but if you have difficulty deciphering my sesquipedalian language, then you must be even more intimidated by my magnitudious appearance.

Peggy Christian

#7. To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.

Paul Babicki

#8. Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us.

George R R Martin

#9. For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

John Calvin

#10. After all we've shared, I just want to hold you and be close. Rest in my arms and know that I love you.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

Richelle Mead

#12. What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare.

W.H. Davies

#13. I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.

Charlie Trotter

#14. When you wear a tattered cloth to a banquet of the honorable, you look weird

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.

Martin Jacques

#17. By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Harry Triguboff

#19. augurs; both of them had celebrated,

Victor Hugo