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Quotes About Message

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
~ Nick Hornby
Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard
~ Nietzsche
The greatest prophet on earth can give men no more than a watchword, and the vaguer the watchword the greater the prophet.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Public opinion is dismissed. That fact, once again, sends a strong message to Americans. It is their task to cure the dysfunctional political system, in which popular opinion is a marginal factor. The disparity between public opinion and policy, in this case, has significant implications for the fate of the world.
~ Noam Chomsky
The spectrum of discussion reflects what a propaganda model would predict: …the implicit message: thus far, and no further.
~ Noam Chomsky
The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I'm just not that mature.' 'It's nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope. You might think this is over, but you'd be wrong. I've taken your shoes hostage. Contact me within forty-eight hours, or the Pradas get it.
~ Nora Roberts
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~ Nora Roberts
Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise. To describe an organism, we do not try to specify each molecule in it, and catalogue it bit by bit, but rather to answer certain questions about it which reveal its pattern: a pattern which is more significant and less probable as the organism becomes, so to speak, more fully an organism.
~ Norbert Wiener
While passion may induce some people to exaggerate, it may drive others to be all the more meticulous and accurate so as not to compromise the credibility of the message they wish to communicate. As you'll see, we think the authors of the Bible took this meticulous and accurate road.
~ Norman L. Geisler
The message of The Winner Takes It All is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It is sixty-six books written by forty authors, written between 1446 B.C. & 90 A.D. But, now we discover that it is an integrated message system from outside our time and space domain.
~ Chuck Missler
66 books by 40 authors and we now find that it (the Bible) is an integrated message system from outside our time domain.
~ Chuck Missler
If you're lis­ten­ing to this, you know that I'm dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every story's trying to say something. It's trying to beam an idea, a message, into the minds of the readers. In this way, every story is an argument. It's the writer making a case.
~ Chuck Wendig
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~ Chuck Wendig
Protest, he thought, was sometimes targeted, yes. A singular message put out against bad men and worse behavior. Other times, it served as a wordless, senseless exhortation—an expression of a problem that was not yet fully understood.
~ Chuck Wendig
There was a message there, if he could teach himself the language.
~ Colson Whitehead
Naviget:  haec summa est; hic nostri nuntius esto.
~ Virgil
But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.
~ Virginia Woolf
This was now revealed to Septimus; the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair.
~ Virginia Woolf
Terrible avait établi et consolidé son pouvoir en affirmant que la Russie était une citadelle assiégée, message que Vladimir
~ Vladimir Fédorovski
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My advice to a budding literary critic would be as follows. Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on ideas. Beware of the modish message. Ask yourself if the symbol you have detected is not your own footprint. Ignore allegories. By all means place the how above the what but do not let it be confused with the so what. Rely on the sudden erection of your small dorsal hairs. Do not drag in Freud at this point. All the rest depends on personal talent.
~ Vladimir Nabokov