Quoted in The Grove: sign
“End of Construction. Thank you for your patience.”
Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham’s grave — inspired by a road sign she saw.
~Billy Graham
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose
~Ase-Marie Nesse
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
~C S Lewis
EndQuote:
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart
~Haruki Murakami
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Exercise Prompt for 03/14: audience
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My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
~Robert A M Stern
Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.
~Tarryn Fisher
When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
~C S Lewis
Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
~John Cusack
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Posted from the Grove
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It’s so fun. People are busting each other’s chops, and it’s a sign of affection, truly. It’s a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit ’em hard.
~Jeff Ross
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
~Alexander Pope
Never apologize, mister. It’s a sign of weakness.
~Frank S Nugent
The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you’re in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that ‘Bush is Hitler,’ forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler.
~Dennis Miller
Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
~Walker Percy
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for — for what? Someday we’ll know.
~Edward Abbey
NYC doesn’t have a big sign saying “You must love diversity and the rights of all people.” And that’s not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.
~Mohsin Hamid
The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.
~Mason Cooley
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~Rowan Atkinson: Interview with Elton John (2:27) smiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0HqlbX7dc
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~Brooke Meredith: Signs of a Lasting Relationship
https://medium.com/@brookemeredith/how-to-tell-if-your-relationship-will-last-c7a86b87e2b4
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I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
~Robert Redford
When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.
~Nido R Qubein
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In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
~John Ruskin
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
~John Ruskin
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
~Eugene Ionesco
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VIDEO:
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
~Paulo Coelho
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~Anatole France
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that’s when they appear.
~Drake
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
~Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
~Greil Marcus
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don’t have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!
~Fred Van Lente
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You will say these are very small sins… [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
~C S Lewis
Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
~Oprah Winfrey
The funny thing about stop signs is that they’re also start signs.
~Maureen Johnson
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~Patrick Hughes: Signs (12:34) by-the-numbers cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qn9g1wvsgM
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~Omeleto: This Always Happens (14:08) his eyes at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aKzHzfNLs
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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
~Chuck Close
You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
~Don King
What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we’re doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven’t had much impact. Let’s see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that’s what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.
~Hillary Clinton
There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don’t last.
~Hillary Clinton
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream.
~James M Kouzes
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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
~Dalai Lama
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
~Myles Munroe
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
~Francis Jeffrey
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
~Albert Camus
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.
~David Brin
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
~John Ruskin
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
~James Cash Penney
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
~Ernest Mandel
It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
~Miles Franklin
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
~Billie Jean King
He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead–black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.
~Stephen King
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~Virginia Woolf
There’s something real in women’s intuition. It’s an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man’s logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
~Jon Voight
It’s time to take the ‘Men Only’ sign off the White House door.
~Carol Moseley Braun
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MUSIC:
I’m the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, “Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.”
~Laurie Halse Anderson
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute — how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.
~John Green
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…
driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light,
the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
~Carson McCullers
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~Mahatma Gandhi
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
~Helen Rowland
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A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start … It is certainly a sign of love, but it’s a sign that it’s already dying.
~Francoise Sagan
Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.
~Julian Barnes
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
~Tom Robbins
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I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
~William Shakespeare
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~Hendrix: Born Under a Bad Sign, feat – Cream (5:41) Clapton on guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGVtbgYx2I
-or- (note the guitar solo in each)
~Hendrix: Born Under a Bad Sign, feat – Joe Bonamassa (5:06) sizzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEO9zm_-QPU
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~Wayne Hancock: Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (5:11) roadside diner bona fides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItgMRXv6v0
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~Harry Styles: Sign of the Times (5:41) it is to fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
~Billie Jean King
He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead–black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.
~Stephen King
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~Virginia Woolf
There’s something real in women’s intuition. It’s an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man’s logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
~Jon Voight
It’s time to take the ‘Men Only’ sign off the White House door.
~Carol Moseley Braun
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My favourite road sign is ‘Falling Rocks’. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying “Random accidents ahead”, “Life’s a lottery, Be lucky.”
~Jimmy Carr
The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing somebody’s cast.
~Demetri Martin
You know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It’s a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.
~Nikki Giovanni
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
~Mark Twain
In the case of some women, orgasms take quite a bit of time. Before signing on with such a partner, make sure you are willing to lay aside, say, the month of June, with sandwiches having to be brought in.
~Bruce Jay Friedman
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what’s in it.
~Ken Blanchard
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
~Steven Wright
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
~Benjamin Disraeli
We won’t be signing off until the world ends. We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event… we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.
~Ted Turner
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ARIES:
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
~Reba McEntire (March 28)
TAURUS:
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
~Jerry Seinfeld (April 29)
GEMINI:
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that’s 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says ‘go outside.”
~Demetri Martin (May 25)
CANCER:
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
~Dave Barry (July 3)
LEO:
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
~Alex Haley (August 11)
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?
~Leo Durocher (July 27)
VIRGO:
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
~Lily Tomlin (September 1)
LIBRA:
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
~David Lee Roth (October 10)
SCORPIO:
I can’t watch American Idol… it’s like karaoke without the booze.
~Tracy Morgan
SAGITTARIUS:
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
~Ron White (December 18)
CAPRICORN:
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~William Lyon Phelps (January 2)
~AQUARIUS:
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~George Burns (January 20)
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
~D H Lawrence
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@Writers Platform
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through.
~Albert Schweitzer
Art is a staple of mankind… So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
~Jamake Highwater
Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice.
~Martin Amis
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
~James Buchan
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
~Confucius
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
~Naum Gabo
Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear. Most people wouldn’t know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass…If lyrics make people do things, how come we don’t love each other?
~Frank Zappa
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Exercise Prompt: sign
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You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
~Rod Serling
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
~Gail Godwin
Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.
~M Scott Peck
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
~Max Born
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
classroom
signed up, signed in
all set to begin
today’s lesson: love
will fit in a teacup
fill a bottomless bin
sublime worlds at war
humans, women and men
cover the gamut
from sacred to sin
the rewards of words
in seductions of yin
a chance at enchantment
spin the bottle to win
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circle to zero
socially signed out
transcendently clocked out
safe at a distance
sidestep the issue
notice the difference
the remedy of contact
touch of self in lieu of love
hearts begin racing
a bubbling excitement
uncorked by a vaccine
when societal walls
and emotional stalls
of worlds in lockdown
all fall down
assuming normalcy
no other malevolent
surprise in waiting
then praise the return
of the party-quotidian
back to the old days
back from isolation
to being alone
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circumscribed
all parts in place
all parts the same
more or less
in various shades
stages
proportions
textures
the body beautiful
that housed a mind
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legal tender
the mouth may speak
but the eyes declare
lips will part
say I love you
but only the eyes
can sign that check
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5-7-5-7-7 x 2
bun in the oven
three kids two dogs large front yard
tree house a clubhouse
country lane a creek nearby
signs the times we had were good
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bright red by midday
flaunting it in Florida
sign of sun’s poison
seven shades darker than pink
mine’s the gin sunrise I think
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5-7-5
autograph hound, not
please sign on the dotted line
yes sir, officer
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I’m sure she’ll love it
sign here at the bottom please
charge card takes a hit
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Last Quotes:
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked “progress.”
~Lord Dunsany
While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
~Eugene J Martin
If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
~Earl Wilson
I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.
~Ryan Paevey
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
~Albert Einstein
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~Blaise Pascal
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~Aesop
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~Albert Einstein
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
~J K Rowling
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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.
~Lynn Margulis
Old age likes indecency. It’s a sign of life.
~Mason Cooley
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There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
~Norman Vincent Peale
The ability to take pleasure in one’s life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
~Todd Solondz
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Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.
~David Rakoff
I can’t get over that at this age I don’t feel this age. I’m not trying to be any younger. I’m not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I’m just at one of those good times in one’s life. I’m at one of the high spots. I’m healthy enough to enjoy it. I’m surrounded by friends I adore. Isn’t that kind of the best way to sign off?
~Betty White
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