"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."

-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Communication Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Function Quotes

“Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.”
“Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”
“Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win.”
“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
“The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.”
“I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.”

Source : Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.

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