Scopic Drive Quotes & Sayings

Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it. — Marilynne Robinson

I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin! — Dane Cook

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it. — Charlton Heston

His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that lies before one's eyes. It allows one to read it, to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god. The exaltation of a scopic and gnostic drive: the fiction of knowledge is related to this lust to be a viewpoint and nothing more. — Michel De Certeau

It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it. — Tim DeChristopher

The gentlemen would like to know if'- he cleared his throat- 'that boom was as bloody brilliant as they thought it was. — Ally Carter