Imagology The Cultural Construction Quotes & Sayings

Soul and mind are the powers of mankind — Akinwale Musa Oluseun

The Strand proudly proclaims itself as home to eighteen miles of books. I have no idea how this is calculated. Does one stack all the books on top of each other to get the eighteen miles? Or do you put them end to end, to create a bridge between Manhattan and, say, Short Hills, New Jersey, eighteen miles away? Were there eighteen miles of shelves? No one knew. We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? Whatever — Rachel Cohn

Menstruating is the only part of being female I have ever disliked. Everything else feels like a unique and covetable privilege, but this? — Lena Dunham

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. — Daniel Ellsberg

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it. — Dave Eggers

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them. — Lysander Spooner

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. — E. M. Forster

The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants. — Susan Sontag

Life is the offspring of death. — Moses Harvey

If I had a heart — L. Frank Baum

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations. — Brian Acton