Sokal Hoax Quotes & Sayings

She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus. — Greg Behrendt

In every religion; a true love is the love for the God, in mine it is for you. — M.F. Moonzajer

I praise You for Your authority over me. I worship You for Your authority over the grave. I praise You! For there is none like You, and all creatures both spiritual and physical are subject to You. For You are Lord and reign over all. Everything is Yours and belongs to Your name alone. Reign in my life in all Your authority. I surrender to Your Lordship. I surrender to Your purpose and Your plans. Be mighty in my life, O God - mighty to save and swift to deliver. — Adam Houge

In a famous hoax, physicist Alan Sokal submitted an article to a leading journal of cultural studies purporting to describe how quantum gravity could produce a "liberatory postmodern science." The article, which parodied the convoluted style of argument in the fashionable academic world of cultural studies, was promptly published by the editors. Sokal announced that his intention was to test the intellectual standards of the discipline by checking whether the journal would publish a piece "liberally salted with nonsense." Sokal, "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies," April 15, 1996, — Dani Rodrik

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. — George R R Martin

Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a child's growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who "can't stop now" to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him is"too silly for anything," should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that "bump of inquiry" was put on top of our skulls. — Ernest Vincent Wright

And dusk fell because it suited his skin. — Anne Enright

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger. — Greta Scacchi

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. — Fred Wilson

The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience. — Joseph Campbell

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen. — John Updike

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other. — Edmund Clowney

Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving. — Tony Hendra

It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world. — Muso Soseki