Interpellative Quotes & Sayings

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him. — Harry Lloyd

I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. — Elle Fanning

Seek freedom within action. — Paul Caponigro

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. — Susan Sontag

Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition. — Thomas A Kempis

I always thought they were a God-send; and they were ... But then again, so was the Great Flood. — Steve Maraboli

He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes do not carry, and in the sudden quiet of the drawing room they both heard him take his next breath. — Thomas Harris

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations. — Hayao Miyazaki

It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything. — Dalai Lama

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring. — Samuel F. Smith

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. — John Milton

Her who whose beauty is not like earthly beauty, dangerous to look upon, but like the morning star which is its emblem, bright and musical. — James Joyce

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. — M.F. Moonzajer

When facts speak, the wise man listens. — Stephen King

The insult, however, assumes its specific proportion in time. To be called a name is one of the first forms of linguistic injury that one learns. But not all name-calling is injurious. Being called a name is also one of the conditions by which a subject is constituted in language; indeed, it is one of the examples Althusser supplies for an understanding of "interpellation."1 Does the power of language to injure follow from its interpellative power? And how, if at all, does linguistic agency emerge from this scene of enabling vulnerability? The problem of injurious speech raises the question of which words wound, which representations offend, suggesting that we focus on those parts of language that are uttered, utterable, and explicit. And yet, linguistic injury appears to be the effect not only of the words by which one is addressed but the mode of address itself, a mode - a disposition or conventional bearing - that interpellates and constitutes a subject. — Judith Butler