Canonical Quotes

#1. All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.

Harold Bloom

#2. One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

Giorgio Agamben

#3. For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Neil MacGregor

#4. What is the historical context in which the Psalter was compiled? What difference do the psalm titles make to canonical interpretation? How does the total canonical context affect our understanding and appropriation of the Psalms?

Anonymous

#5. Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition. There

F.F. Bruce

#6. The firing pattern of both mirror and canonical neurons in area F5 shows clearly that perception and action are not separated in the brain. They are simply two sides of the same coin, inextricably linked to each other. Some

Marco Iacoboni

#7. These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

Hari Kunzru

#8. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

William Barclay

#9. Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

Harold Bloom

#10. [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

George Will

#11. Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

Robert Linssen

#12. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.

Harold Bloom

#13. Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Harold Bloom

#14. It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.

Terry Teachout

#15. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

Cynthia Daignault

#17. Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

Samuel Rutherford

#18. Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Stephen Jay Gould

#19. One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Harold Bloom

#20. The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.

Matt Mullenweg

#21. When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#22. It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

Stacy Schiff

#23. The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.

Caroline Baum

#25. I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

Tommy Chong

#26. I'm trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

Emily VanCamp

#27. Fact: The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

Demetri Martin

#28. When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

Michael Haneke

#29. When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything - even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

Pauline Kael