Quotes of Hieroglyphic - somelinesforyou

“ Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ”

- David Hare

“ Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ”

- Lydia M. Child

“ Most of the glories of the world are mere outward show, like the scenes on a stage: there is nothing real about them. Ships festooned and hung with pennants, firing of cannon, illuminations, beating of drums and blowing of trumpets, shouting and applauding — these are all the outward sign, the pretense and suggestion — as it were the hieroglyphic — of joy… ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories. ”

- Will Eisner
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