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Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: swiss
Birth: November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913

Topics

Said Signs Things Institutions Evoke

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

Myself Writing Hands Nothing Sit

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Stephen Merchant

Life Time Moment Job Game Weird

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

Dance American Difference Big Guys

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

Daughter Speak Three She Years Took

I've never shied away from hard work.

Work Hard Work Never Hard Away

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Freedom Purpose Liberty Sincerity

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Love Women Football Me Game Speak

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

Architecture Design Transportation Go

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.'

People Me Feel Friends You Circle

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

I Am Me Game Boy Cave Little

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

History Best Government Looking Back

I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.

Business Reflection People World

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