Jonathan 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. Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.

James Montgomery Boice

#4. Rather than wandering around in problem-solving mode all day, thinking mainly of what you want to fix about yourself or your life, you can pause for a few moments throughout the day to marvel at what's not broken. You

Kristin Neff

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

Jonathan Culler

#6. Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up? ... Alive

Ally Carter

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

Jonathan Culler

#8. Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Martin Amis

#9. If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

Oche Otorkpa

#10. Look for a candidate who can do to the electorate what corporations are learning to do, so Government - or, better, Big Government, Big Brother, Intrusive Government - becomes the image against which this candidate defines himself. Though

David Foster Wallace

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

Jonathan Culler

#12. . . . 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

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

Jonathan Culler