Carnivalization Bakhtin Quotes & Sayings

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway. — Phyllis Diller

Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations. — Jan Karon

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. — Joseph Wambaugh

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. — William Ames

What Applebee's was proposing was like Rick Bayless's endorsement of a line of chicken sandwiches for Burger King — Allen Salkin

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers. — Ronald Reagan

Carnivalization is not an external and immobile schema which is imposed upon ready-made content; it is, rather, an extraordinarily flexible form of artistic visualization, a peculiar sort of heuristic principle making possible the discovery of new and as yet unseen things. By relativizing all that was externally stable, set and ready-made, carnivalization with its pathos of change and renewal permitted Dostoevsky to penetrate into the deepest layers of man and human relationships. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things? — Dane Cook

A foreign country remains foreign until you find people near and dear to you there. — Mikhail Shishkin