Knockng Quotes & Sayings

Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they're like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida's method: masturbating without pleasure. It's a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins. — Camille Paglia

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded! — William Gilbert

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile — Loren Eiseley

Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands." — Oprah Winfrey

Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious. — Karen Marie Moning

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. — Lee Majors

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know ... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so. — Anthony LaPaglia

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people. — Paul Bloom

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world. — Tom T. Hall

Buckle up. It'd be embarrassing to die in a hearse. — Stephanie Bond

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong. — Marcus Giles

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg

Don't thank me, either of you. I only brought the both of you along so that you could ask all the smart questions and make sense of what they show us. — G. Norman Lippert

Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say. Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on! — J.G. Ballard

GRACE
GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God. — Max Lucado