Culler Quotes

#1. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Jonathan Culler

#2. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.

Jonathan Culler

#3. Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

Jonathan Culler

#4. I close my eyes and think of the photograph Culler showed me. I see it in my head perfectly. He'll be there, at that school. Another piece of my father. And then another. Six pieces. I will find them all, put them together. I'll find him.
And then I'll let him go.

Courtney Summers

#5. We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

Billy Bob Thornton

#7. I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

Robert Herjavec

#8. The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Danica McKellar

#9. For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

#10. Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

Jonathan Culler

#11. I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. If anyone else said that to me, I think I'd roll my eyes, but Culler saying it to me means me committing it to memory and locking it inside so I'll always have it.

Courtney Summers

#13. If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all! A quote from Thumper in Bambi.

G.J. Griffiths

#14. You have rare beauty the like I have never seen but you will be more beautiful heavy with my seed, he stated softly.

Kristen Ashley

#15. The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Jonathan Culler

#16. . . . literature is not frivolous pseudo-statements but takes its place among the acts of language that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name.

Jonathan Culler

#17. Success can only be measured with achievement.

Osunsakin Adewale

#18. Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

Jonathan Culler

#19. If I were a man
I might not wear the cloak
of anonymity.

Stephanie Hemphill