Canon Quotes

• We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Respect

• I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Considered
  • Differently
  • Memoirs

• Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Literature
  • Greek
  • Currents

• These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• The libidinal fantasy-stream only becomes significant for other people, i.e. capable of mediation, if it is socialised through fusion with the canon, while at the same time energizing and individualizing the canon or the conscience.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • Conscience
  • Fantasy
  • Canon

• You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Next
  • Generations
  • Canon

• Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Law
  • Religious

• We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.

  

  Casey Hudson
  • Player
  • Stories
  • Canon