#signals

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #crowns #enough #history #interestingly

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. ↗

— William Falconer

#being #circumstance #every #facility #fleet

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#been #could #decisively #further #iraq

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#courtship #displays #males #signals #through

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green. ↗

— John Thorn

#chill #defeat #enters #fall #fan

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#dangerous #enemy #generals #ignore #people

Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She’d waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. —from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE ↗

— Eric Beeny

#age

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks ↗

— Amit Abraham

#long-distance-relationships #mobile #signals-blackout #communication

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#almost #behavior #courtship #females #inheritance