Carnivalization Bakhtin Quotes

#1. I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Ralph Ellison

#2. That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

Ernest Gowers

#3. Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

Napoleon Hill

#4. Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

Maria Menounos

#5. Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Carolyn Brown

#6. Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Frederick Busch

#7. The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Charles Stross

#8. He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Richard Schickel

#9. Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Jerry Rubin

#10. I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

Roma Downey

#11. Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.

Renee Ahdieh