Quotes About Denotation

#1. Apeshit has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Words blur at the borders, fuzz into other words, not just in big clouds of connotation around the edges of the word, but right there in the heart of denotation itself.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days

it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.

John Burnside

#4. There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.

Glen Duncan

#5. One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

Jill Soloway

#6. What are we without belief, without purpose?

Rachelle Dekker

#7. How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy, to drown, to toss, to carry one to the safety of shore.

Julie Anne Long

#8. What's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Woody Allen

#10. Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. "Give me twenty pounds," I snapped. "I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now!

Sarra Manning

#11. Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

Myles Munroe

#12. The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#13. Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it.

Kristen Ashley

#14. Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual ... but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

Edward R. Murrow

#15. Nobody in the West should forget that what unites the two main branches of Islam is far greater that what divides them, and that the vast majority of all Muslims still cherish the ideal of unity preached by Muhammad himself - an ideal the more deeply held for being so deeply broken.

Anonymous

#16. I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Mark Cuban

#17. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#18. I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

#19. Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl. At

Tana French