Thursday, May 19, 2016

What is Great Quotes?



Quotes. Why are they so common? What is it about quotes that humans are so concerned to? Quotes post script chapters in books. They are decorated on the walls of our schools. We surround them and hang them in our homes. We guide them to give each other in cards and letters. They loveliness the halls of our work areas and are fixed into our headstones when we die. Why do people comparable quotes?

The best answer to this question was bestowed to Alema Pequoia who said, "Because they precisely and definitively express what we know, recognize, feel, believe, think, accept, imagine, hope, fear, desire, acknowledge, and/or have experienced. It is a recognizable life truth."

What are quotes anyway? How can the modest association of a few words have such influence? A recent tour of the Library of Congress exposed many quotes from the great books of all time written over the windows and doors of the upper floor. It was a pleasure to read all the quotes so wisely placed. Undoubtedly, quotes have been appreciated for a very long time. Could it be that words reverberate with a specific vibration frequency? Is it possible that the mixture of words carries an impact far elsewhere the separate words themselves? Is there an electrical regularity created from the combination of words that reaches out and connects to our brains essentially deep with our very being? It is true that quotes mean different things to dissimilar people. Perhaps our very actualities are pretentious in some way by the mixtures of words we call quotes.