Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Quotes

Love is just a four letter word! Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I mean, love didn’t work, whatever the hell that is, in my life. Alone I am. I’m not particularly into self-love either. I’m quite prepared to die. And all the objects of my love slowly trail off.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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• In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Effort
  • Progress
  • Will

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Keep

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Interesting
  • Choices
  • Really

• Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • True
  • Dreams

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • War
  • History
  • Military

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Remarkable

• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Price
  • Discrimination
  • Choosing

• I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Lives
  • Girls

• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Country
  • Done
  • Play

• I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Together
  • Justice

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• Love is just a four letter word! Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I mean, love didn’t work, whatever the hell that is, in my life. Alone I am. I’m not particularly into self-love either. I’m quite prepared to die. And all the objects of my love slowly trail off.

  

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Love
  • Die
  • Mean