Some animals, especially domesticated animals, are extremely susceptible to signs. A dog will react to the slightest change in the... behavior of his master; he will even distinguish the expressions of a human face or the modulations of a human voice. But it is far cry from these phenomena to an understanding of symbolic and human speech.... Symbols--in the proper sense of this term--cannot be reduced to mere signals. Signals and symbols belong to two different universes of discourse: a signal is a part of the physical world of being; a symbol is a part of the human world of meaning. Signals are "operators"; symbols are "designators."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furr'd brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice, or a scolding t...ongue ... a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspected but pronounced for a witch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be throw...n at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please h...im, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober.... This is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race.... When a generation or two have used up all their enemies' darts, their successors lead a comparatively easy life. We owe to our fathers analogous blessings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With its frame of shaking curls all in disarray, earrings swinging,... make-up smudged by beads of sweat, eyes languid at the end of lovemaking, may the face of the slim girl who's riding on top of you protect you long. What's the use of Vishnu, Shiva, Skanda, and all those other gods?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern photographers can reduce bones to formlessness, and change a face of the most strange, exquisite and unfathomable beauty in...to the face of a clubwoman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »