Craig Owens Quotes

The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

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• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • See
  • Dogs

• The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Work
  • Chance
  • Broadway

• You have to respect your opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Respect
  • Opponent

• I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Society
  • Actors
  • Secret

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Power
  • You
  • Underestimate

• I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Day
  • Working
  • Part

• Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Love
  • Done

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Heaven

• 'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Cat

• I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Children
  • Why
  • Friends

• I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Look

• 'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Independent

• The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.

  

  Craig Owens Chiodos
  • Reality
  • Behinds
  • Appearance