Judith Butler Quotes

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

Judith Butler

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Challenge
  • Write

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • She
  • Want
  • Technology

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Low-Income

• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Men
  • Energy

• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Truth
  • Greek
  • Century

• Welcome to the Family.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Family
  • Welcome

• We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Write
  • Theory
  • Gender