Hortense Spillers Quotes & Sayings

I'm actually kinda quiet off stage, a lotta people don't realize that, I was at a dinner party recently, a bunch of people that I don't know, one guy talking plenty for everybody, Me myself right and then I and then myself and mee me I couldn't tell this one about I cause I was talking about myself and Me- Meee- Mee- Me- Me! Beware the me monster. — Brian Regan

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. — Daphne Du Maurier

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when
you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions
right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's
one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't
quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then,
is philosophy. — Daniel Dennett

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics. — C.V. Wedgwood

I was drinking beer to kill time, the erotic and sensitive Mexican time which is so different from the clean-packaged, well-kept time of the Americanos. Time in Mexico is at times cruel and punishing, but it is never indifferent. It permeates everything, changes reality. Einstein would have loved Mexico because there time and space are one. I stare more often into empty space when I'm in Mexico. — Rudolfo Anaya

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I did it - I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops' garden-party against his will.
We all make mistakes occasionally. — Saki

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it. — Peter V. Brett

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself. — Ann Demeulemeester

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. — P. J. O'Rourke