Bakhtin Discourse Quotes & Sayings

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological. — Janine Di Giovanni

Our life is nothing but expression of our deepest thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them. — K. Martin Beckner

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet. — John Ruskin

The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night! — Kate Beckinsale

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance. — Bikram Choudhury

In rhetoric there are the unconditionally right and the unconditionally guilty; there is total victory and the annihilation of the opponent. In dialogue, annihilation of the opponent also annihilates the very dialogic sphere in which discourse lives... This sphere is very fragile and is easily destroyed... — Mikhail Bakhtin

For the prose artist the world is full of other people's words, among which he must orient himself and whose speech characteristics he must be able to perceive with a very keen ear. He must introduce them into the plane of his own discourse, but in such a way that this plane is not destroyed. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Dostoevsky's hero is not only a discourse about himself and his immediate environment, but also a discourse about the world; he is not only cognizant, but an ideologist as well. The — Mikhail Bakhtin

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress. — Virginia Postrel

God willing, we will throw them into the sea. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him; — Mikhail Bakhtin

Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. — Ouida

I write things that I would like to read myself. — T.M. Bilderback

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I wouldn't say I'm bigger than Jesus. If I had to guess, I'd say probably, yeah, but as far as I know, the bible is never clear on this. — Zach Braff