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Quotes About Message

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.
~ Roman Jakobson
Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content
~ Tim Crane
I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
~ Vivek Shraya
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
~ Charles Jencks
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
~ Dave Barry
He typed in a request and sent
~ David Baldacci
flight back to America. Robie sat in his jump seat and pulled out the burn phone the scrub man back in the ambulance had tossed him right before he'd exited the vehicle. The message was waiting for
~ David Baldacci
A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief with frivolous contempt. Their books have in recent years poured from every press, and although differing widely in their style, they are identical in their message: Because scientific theories are true, religious beliefs must be false.
~ David Berlinski
I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
~ David Brin
there is another launch against the United States." "Wish we had made that message clearer before the Day," Makala said softly, her voice filled with bitterness.
~ William R. Forstchen
Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.
~ William Shakespeare
More matter with less art.
~ William Shakespeare
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
~ William Shakespeare
For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.
~ William Shakespeare
In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom? In his heart? In what chapter and verse of his heart? VIOLA (200) To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. To continue this metaphor—in the first chapter of his heart. OLIVIA Oh, I have read it. It is heresy. Have you no more to say? Oh, I have read that. It's not a holy message, it's heresy. Do you
~ William Shakespeare
Hogwash!" he exclaimed. "Christianity is finished and done with. Don't you know that, Reverend? And don't you realize further that it was the message contained in Holy Scripture that was the cause, the prime mover, of this entire miserable catastrophe? Don't you see the plain ordinary evil of your dad-burned Bible?
~ William Styron
sense of the triumph of life over death is at the core of The Myth of Sisyphus with its austere message: in the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do—by the skin of our teeth.
~ William Styron
When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge.
~ William Ury
When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge. Of course, this phrase is not to be used lightly or misleadingly as a rigid adversarial position; it works when it is indeed your policy, something you have thought through.
~ William Ury
It was the time when the man called Jesus Christ walked the sands, spreading His message. Only a few years before that man would be nailed to a rough wooden cross to die.
~ William W. Johnstone
All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.
~ Winston S. Churchill
It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.
~ Unknown