Alfred Jarry Quotes

Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • You
  • Something
  • Womanhood

• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Right
  • Influence
  • Far

• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Illiterate

• The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Service
  • Understand

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • City
  • Person
  • Feel

• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • World
  • Respect
  • Best

• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Revelation

• I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Start

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing

• There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Free
  • Thoughts

• You say I'm the greatest, bound for glory.Well the word is out and I learned.I got the latest side of the story:You're pulling out before you get burned.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits

• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  

  Clare Short
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Wind
  • Run
  • Solar

• True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

  

  Rumi
  • True
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee

• Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

  

  Alfred Jarry