Funny Pierre Bourdieu Quotes & Sayings

The awareness of imagery is part of living ... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception ... of images. — Oskar Kokoschka

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used. — Kate Reardon

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth. — David Letterman

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation, — Jens Stoltenberg

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated? — Stewart O'Nan

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! — Horace

The mind of a child is a precious thing. — Asa Don Brown

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. — H.P. Lovecraft

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard. — M.B. Dallocchio

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious. I couldn't explain everything that went on in the creation of a poem, but I could try to explain as much as I knew. I thought readers deserved that. I didn't want to set myself apart as being someone special. — Pattiann Rogers

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature. — Madison Smartt Bell

Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition, — Walter Isaacson

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — Al Yankovic

Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. They used to draw crowds. Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, even though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today. A New York Times account of community resistance to the eviction of three Bronx families in February 1932 observed, "Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000."1 Sometimes neighbors confronted the marshals directly, sitting on the evicted family's furniture to prevent its removal or moving the family back in despite the judge's orders. The marshals themselves were ambivalent about carrying out evictions. It wasn't why they carried a badge and a gun. — Matthew Desmond