Giles Goat Boy Quotes & Sayings

We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders"5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground. — Douglas Rushkoff

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station. — Rachel Nichols

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. — Barry Gibb

To deconstruct a concept is to analyze it in a way which reveals its construction - both in the temporal sense of its birth and development over time and in a certain cultural and political matrix, and in the sense of its own present structure, its meaning, and its relation to other concepts. One of the most impressive aspects of such an analysis is the revelation of the 'contingency' of the concept, i.e. the fact that it is only the accidental collaboration of various historical events and circumstances that brought that concept into being, and the fact that there could be a world of sense without that concept in it (emphasis added).26 In — Robert Jensen

All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us. — Bertolt Brecht

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. — Steven Spielberg

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. — Bernard Madoff

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life. — Sarah Polley

There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building - a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn't truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing. — Gayle Forman