"Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Wine Quotes #Blood Quotes #Names Quotes

“When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.”
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”
“Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.”
“I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.”
“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.8, Columbia University Press
“Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.”
“The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.”
“When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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