On Boxing Joyce Carol Oates Quotes & Sayings

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty. — Joyce Carol Oates

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. — Joyce Carol Oates

No American sport or activity has been so consistently and so passionately under attack as boxing, for "moral" as we'll as other reasons. And no American sport evokes so ambivalent a response in its defenders: when asked the familiar question "How can you watch ... ?" the boxing aficionado really has no answer. He can talk about boxing only with others like himself. — Joyce Carol Oates

If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it. — Toni Sorenson

Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. — David Barton

Boxing has become America's tragic theater. — Joyce Carol Oates

Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. — Charles Dickens

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing ... The boxing match is the very image, the more terrifying for being so stylized, of mankind's collective aggression; its ongoing historical madness. — Joyce Carol Oates

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved — Joyce Carol Oates

I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well. — Olivia Culpo

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!" — Pierce Brosnan

I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend. — Cher Lloyd

Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end. — Robin Hobb

...for, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one's personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, 'Kill him! Kill him!' he is betraying no peculiar pathology or quirk but asserting his common humanity and his kinship, however distant, with the thousands upon thousands of spectators who crowded into the Roman amphitheaters to see gladiators fight to the death. — Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. — Joyce Carol Oates

When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize. — Simon Kuznets

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible to see your opponent is you ... — Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. — Joyce Carol Oates

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. — Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt. — Joyce Carol Oates