Person Without Belly Button Quotes & Sayings

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times I remain with it? I look at it, I scrutinize it, as if I wanted to know more about the thing or the person it represents ... I want to outline the loved face by thought, to make it into the unique field of an intense observation; I want to enlarge this face in order to see it better, to understand it better, to know its truth. — Roland Barthes

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love — Chiara Lubich

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. — Dexter Gordon

There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener — Jonathan Auxier

That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people? — Zach Galifianakis

History is the great propagator of doubt. — A.J.P. Taylor

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button? — Mary E. Pearson

When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not. — Edmund Morgan

Sucking the fun out of life has always been an important component of politics. — P. J. O'Rourke