Waxworks 1924 Quotes & Sayings

In this era of global capital triumphant, to keep responsibility alive in the reading and teaching of the textual is at first sight impractical. It is, however, the right of the textual to be so responsible, responsive, answerable. The "planet" is, here, as perhaps always, a catachresis for inscribing collective responsibility as right. Its alterity, determining experience, is mysterious and discontinuous - an experience of the impossible. It is such collectivities that must be opened up with the question "How many are we?" when cultural origin is detranscendentalized into fiction - the toughest task in the diaspora. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Fear-Dog told me . . . we must return to our camp," he growled, his voice throaty with drool. "Now?" whimpered the little brown dog. "Now. Immediately." Terror swiped a trembling paw at her face, though this time he missed. "He says . . . we are to kill any strange dogs. Kill them all. Kill them on sight. Now go! — Erin Hunter

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source". — Richard Stallman

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. — Epictetus

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard

Life is easy if you don't take it difficult — Nazali Noor

No one ever drowned in sweat. — U.S. Marine Corps

You're sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you're convinced you're going to die of discomfort. — J.A. Redmerski

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win. — Bjorn Borg

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well. — Brian K. Vaughan

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer. — Donald Rumsfeld

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways ... socialism is a new form of slavery. — Alexis De Tocqueville

All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn. — Doug Casey