537 quotes found
“Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't dress it up, don't expect talk to, either.”
“I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she'll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady with all the spirit knoc...”
“Be an empowertarian. A person who empowers their own life and that of others.”
“Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? Its not because theyve got things to do, though Im sure there are a few assholes who think like that, either...”
“That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised”
“I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.”
“I believe in it because it is impossible.”
“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externali...”
“Youre not necessarily supposed to believe itYoure just supposed to believe in it.”
“That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”
“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”
“If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.”
“Why must we be so restricted by language, these ruined tongues! These twenty-six letters- how can that explain this agony? How could we ever endeavor to prove what we are here for- through such com...”
“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.”
“When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all u...”
“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are ...”
“Men are all alike. Grown-up children.”
“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face a...”
“I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.”
“I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.”
