Styers Quotes & Sayings

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. — Charles Kettering

Praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld. — Brandon Sanderson

I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept. — Anne Enright

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13 — Randall Styers

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. — Sarah Jessica Parker

[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17 — Randall Styers

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. — Alain Prost

I'm sorry." The words were hurried and a little garbled but unmistakable. She raised an eyebrow and noticed that he had trouble meeting her eyes.

"For which item on your long list of indiscretions?" she asked as she toyed with the pen.

"All of them?"

"Please. I don't do blanket forgiveness." She waved her hand dismissively and was delighted to see a grin flirt along the corners of his mouth. — Natasha Anders

We will have no jobs if we have no planet. — Sharan Burrow

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.

-- Making Magic, p. 23 — Randall Styers

With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 23 — Randall Styers