Top 15 Famous Foucault Quotes
#3. We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
Laurence Sterne
#4. A world of colors on the palette remaining ... wandering ... on canvases still emerging.
Wassily Kandinsky
#5. In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting ... if ever it was.
Donna Lynn Hope
#6. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson
#7. So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
Zora Neale Hurston
#9. Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton
#12. Foucault's was a seductive image, one that helped to make him famous and to attract legions of disciples. But for all that, it remains a late 20th-century ideological construct, one with little or no contemporary relevance or resonance in the societies it purports to describe.
Andrew Scull
#13. It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.
Kate Jacobs
#14. There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick.
Carson McCullers
#15. Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
Earl Campbell
