Signs Quotes

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

NO COLORED CLERKS IN COLORED NEIGHBORHOODS., STAY OUT!

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Symbols are important.

I'm not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.