Conveys Quotes
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Should we retain our national flag that conveys historical continuity from the days of the Cakobau government to the period of British Colonial rule, or is it time for a new one?
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Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the place?it still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.
Godfrey Smith— 1984 Of Brighton.The English Companion.
"Nichts gibt so sehr das Gefühl der Unendlichkeit als wie die Dummheit." Translation: Nothing conveys the feeling of infinity as much as stupidity does.
— Motto of Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Wood) (1931)
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
Marcel Marceau— US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.
john selden— John Selden, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends...
j. r. r. tolkien— No. 180: To a Mr. Thompson (1956)
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
larry wall— Usenet article (1992)
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied thought, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
aaron hill— Aaron Hill, Verses Written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland.
The classical "Sleeping Beauty" tales embody a necrophilic fantasy , in which a corpse is restored to life . Shakespeare 's "Romeo and Juliet" conveys a similar fantasy.
— Jonathan P. Rosman, Phillip J. Resnick, in Sexual Attraction to Corpses: A Psychiatric Review of Necrophilia, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Online, p.153
