Vigen Music Quotes & Sayings

Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they're like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida's method: masturbating without pleasure. It's a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins. — Camille Paglia

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity. — Momofuku Ando

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary. — Michael Chabon

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over. — David Gest

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom. — Jane Roberts

You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment. — Michael Dobbs

We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light. — Jewel

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream. — Olivier Martinez

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. — Thomas Moore