Barthesian Quotes & Sayings

wisdom, when it comes to sin, is that human wisdom wants to cover it up. Adam — Edwin Louis Cole

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it. — Shannon L. Alder

By playing happy or sad music, displaying different emotionally moving photographs, or giving different kinds of feedback to participants during a taxing task, researchers can manipulate participants' affective responses. This proves the variability of affective states in response to constantly changing surroundings and social interactions. Of course classrooms are rife with changing conditions that influence students' affective states. — Anne Meyer

His own way to a sick man is what grass is to a sick dog. — Hope Mirrlees

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay. — Afrojack

[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation. — James Welling

Pay him back, we really would have to do something — B.J. Novak

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work. — Kevin Spacey

Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession which encourages them to stay at their desk for years, if necessary, pondering what to say next and how best to say it. Interviewers propose to speed up this process
by trepanning writers, so to speak, and fishing around in their brains for unused ideas which otherwise might never get out of there. Not a single idea has ever been discovered by means of this brutal method
and still the trepanning of authors goes on every day.
I now refuse all those who wish to take the top off my skull yet again. The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down. — Kurt Vonnegut

All action is vicarious faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. — John Bradshaw

Meetings are held, wise with the wise. Because their spirits are alike.' Or minds. — Maggie Stiefvater

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it. — Matt Cartwright

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. — Vladimir Nabokov