Avital Ronell Quotes

#1. I try to be as normal as I can.

Timbaland

#2. Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Avital Ronell

#3. We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants.

David Wong

#4. My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#5. To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Avital Ronell

#6. People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

William Kamkwamba

#7. One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

#8. the lagers are warm and the takeaway's cold

David Nicholls

#9. I am a firm believer that there is rarely a straight line between good and evil.

Nicholas Denmon

#10. [the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...

Jonathan Edwards

#11. The tyrant is a child of pride.

Sophocles

#12. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Sarah Palin

#13. You are the world, Letha..

Richelle Mead

#14. Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Avital Ronell

#15. Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

Avital Ronell

#16. Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

Marie De France

#17. Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

Avital Ronell