Biographeme Quotes & Sayings

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing. — Anna Wintour

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography. — Roland Barthes

Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most important reason to love something. — Michael Zadoorian

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul. — Amelia Barr

I like to play pranks on my girlfriend, you know, keep things fresh for me, make me laugh, you know? She hates it. But like, the other night, I put Saran wrap over the toilet seat, you know, which doesn't sound that original, but she's bulimic. — Anthony Jeselnik

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road. — John Deacon

He was alone," I cried. "He didn't have anyone with him- he must of been so scared. I told him we would stay together. — Alexandra Bracken

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting. — Ray Davies

He's not perfect. You are not either — Bob Marley

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. — Alexander Pope

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us? — Russell Brand