Judith Butler Quotes
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Quotes to Explore
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I never read about photography.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
