Polysemic Quotes

#1. The notions of hybridity, metissage, cosmopolitanism have been deployed and reworked in order to capture the polycentric and polysemic aspects of these new configurations.

Okwui Enwezor

#2. It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Terry Eagleton

#3. Polysemy, and it is very common. Sound is another polysemic word.

Bill Bryson

#4. Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

Jonathan Zittrain

#5. I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#7. Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

Robert Scheid

#8. Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.

Jim Rash

#9. You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

Caroline Kepnes

#10. In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

Zubin Mehta

#11. Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds ... Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

Matthew Arnold

#12. We don't know why anything is what it is. It just is.

Marty Rubin

#13. Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Mignon McLaughlin