Michel Foucault Quotes
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.Michel Foucault
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
Kapil Sibal -
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten -
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
Daniel Clowes -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik -
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright -
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher -
If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
A. Philip Randolph -
I don't want to die an old lady.
Edith Piaf -
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo -
It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
Jack Gleeson
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
P. J. O'Rourke -
On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.
P. G. Wodehouse -
It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Reason is lost reasoning.
Antonio Porchia -
The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.
Chris O'Dowd
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I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.
Martin Landau -
The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see. The key ingredient is to have the courage to face inconsistencies between what we see and deduce and the way things are done. This challenging of basic assumptions is essential to breakthroughs.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
Sunil Gangopadhyay -
Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.
Abby May Alcott -
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel Foucault