Discursivity Quotes

#1. Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

Paul Fry

#2. I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.

Paul Fry

#3. Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

Sarah Mayberry

#4. And someplace, if there is a place where lists are kept, and credit given, I am sure there is a gold star by his name.

Donna Tartt

#5. Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

Mitchell Burgess

#6. Piano is like drudgery.

Warren Zevon

#7. Buenos dias, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Wallace Stegner

#8. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

#9. We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Solange Knowles

#10. There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet