Symbolic Exchange Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me. — Tom Waits

I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything. — Kevin D. Williamson

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. — Phyllis Theroux

It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed. — Janelle Gray

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value. — Jean Baudrillard

I don't think we get exempt from the pain because we live good lives. Some circumstances we can't control - in fact, most are truly beyond our abilities. Instead maybe it's how we get made new; it's one of the only times we slow down enough to listen and receive grace, real grace. — Katherine Reay

One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in the day, and sending them home. Do you have any idea how many years I had to wait for that? — Neil Leckman

People's hearts are always fragile, so we have to make sure that other people's hearts don't break. If they break, it will be hard for us to recover their broken hearts. — Saaif Alam

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap. — Kate Klise

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me. — Heather Donahue

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known. — Donna Tartt

You know, for someone with your reputation, you are amazingly difficult to get into bed. — Kalayna Price

I would call myself more spiritual than religious. — Chad Kroeger

You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you — Sunday Adelaja