Geoffrey Fisher Quotes

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I never discuss discussions.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified … for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

There's always a way to talk.

Dr. Kissinger is a man you can talk to.

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say.

Symbols can often lead to progress.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

Everything kind of has a message in it.

small talk comes from small bones

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.