Deconstructionist Quotes

#1. I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium, digital and smoke-free. A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist. Politically, anatomically, and ecologically incorrect.

Mike Nelson

#2. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

#3. Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Joshua Leonard

#4. Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.

Edward Said

#5. I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

David Lodge

#6. Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.

Liz Goldwyn

#7. The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Harry Houdini

#8. Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.

Flynn Meaney

#9. A person's life isn't orderly ... it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

William Trevor

#10. Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

Tsem Tulku

#11. We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. Consequence is no coincidence.

Lauryn Hill