Citationality Quotes & Sayings

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine. — Abraham Coles

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called "normal" functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way? — Jacques Derrida

I love you, Max,' I whisper as his face and everything else in the world fades to white — Matthew Dicks

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five! — David Spade

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films. — Doris Day

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. — Blaise Pascal

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated. — Laura Berman Fortgang

Isn't it too late at night to begin something like this?"
"Not when one has a dire case of imagine-somnia. — Lisa Kleypas

The quieting of our mind is a political act. — Jack Kornfield

Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people. — Richard M. Weiner

Thought has no gender. — Vanna Bonta