“The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.”
- Andy Warhol
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
- Lewis Carroll
“`Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on. `I do,’ Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say - that’s the same thing, you know.’”
- Lewis Carroll
“Change. Change. Change. Change… Change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don’t mean anything. Or maybe they don’t mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.”
- Neil Gaiman, “Sandman”
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
- Robert McCloskey
“’I meant,’ said Ipslore bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?’
DEATH thought about it. ‘Cats,’ he said eventually, ‘Cats are Nice’.”
- Terry Pratchett, “Sourcery - Discworld”
Acho que é pra isso que eu já estudei tanta semiótica, para quando eu me desentender com uma pessoa eu ter certeza absoluta de que o problema é que não estamos falando a mesma língua. Não existe nada pior para a comunicação do que uma pessoa que só escuta o que ela mesma fala.