Top 18 Signifier Quotes

#1. If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

Jeff Van Gundy

Signifier Quotes #16738
#2. Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

Martha Plimpton

Signifier Quotes #366209
#3. For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan

Signifier Quotes #478491
#4. I was later to realize that a neatly trimmed lawn was a powerful signifier and should have commanded in me a slight sense of fear and respect, especially in conjunction

Matt Haig

Signifier Quotes #558090
#5. Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

Signifier Quotes #572208
#6. I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

Alan Bates

Signifier Quotes #588819
#7. A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Rudolf Arnheim

Signifier Quotes #930135
#8. My favourite scent ... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

Marie Helvin

Signifier Quotes #1079983
#9. Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Franz Grillparzer

Signifier Quotes #1101892
#10. I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Katy Perry

Signifier Quotes #1198676
#11. I cannot enter the realm of the kingdom of God unless I am born again from above by a birth totally unlike physical birth. "You must be born again" (John 3:7).

Oswald Chambers

Signifier Quotes #1290976
#12. As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

Julian Castro

Signifier Quotes #1303937
#13. It's the end that marks a beginning, not the first day.

Emily Bleeker

Signifier Quotes #1460341
#14. The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

Ferdinand De Saussure

Signifier Quotes #1527894
#15. gifts - that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.

Jeanette Winterson

Signifier Quotes #1541850
#16. The difference between structuralism and existentialism is simple: the world-constituting 'I' of existentialism is displaced by the linguistic relation between signifier and signified.

Stephen Trombley

Signifier Quotes #1580268
#17. We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

Baba Kalyani

Signifier Quotes #1610642
#18. When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

James McGreevey

Signifier Quotes #1659634

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