Alan Sokal Quotes
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Alan Sokal
Quotes to Explore
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
Samantha Barks
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We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.
Zhang Jindong
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
Rafael Nadal
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
Walt Mossberg
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
Natalie Massenet
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A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Alan Sokal