Craig Owens Quotes

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

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• Endless
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• Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Problems
  • Special
  • Everyone

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• Palestinian people are in love with life.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Life
  • Are

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

  

  Adele
  • Records
  • Figure
  • Rely

• I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Years
  • Lessons
  • I've Learned

• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Sexy

• What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Cake
  • Delicious

• The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • Rocky

• Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Know
  • Fiction
  • Tells

• Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Bad
  • Human
  • Books

• I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Issue
  • Turkey

• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • Life
  • History
  • Acceptance

• There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Sea
  • Endless
  • Rowboat

• Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Sleep
  • Wealth

• Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

  

  Craig Owens Chiodos
  • Photograph
  • Chains
  • Endless