Semaphore Quotes

#1. If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. It's more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

RuPaul

#3. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.

Kazimir Malevich

#4. Yes. Loving somebody isn't a one time thing, its an everyday thing. Something you do to them, with them, for them. Because of them. Every day, all day. And night." ~Solomon~

Lucian Bane

#5. I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

Paul Auster

#6. I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.

Terry J. Lundgren

#7. Liars are exhausting people.

Walter Kirn

#8. Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.

Katie MacAlister

#9. Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. The two men used their arms to semaphore greetings and good-byes.

Anonymous

#11. If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

Robert B. Parker

#12. Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two crisp pieces of cloth, like a book mark between two pages.

Amy Willard Cross

#13. As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

Franklin P. Adams

#14. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Louise Penny

#15. Because we all need to stop once in a while.
To think.
To evaluate.
To accept life.
So that we move on with a better perspective.

Diana Rikasari

#16. Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Antonin Scalia

#17. The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Elisabeth Elliot

#18. Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.

Alastair Reynolds

#19. Oh, Glenn!--forgive--me! " she faltered. "I was only--talking. What do I know? Oh, I am blind--blind and little!

Zane Grey

#20. This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.

Virginia Woolf

#21. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Mignon McLaughlin