Karen Barad Quotes

#1. I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

Cory Monteith

#2. I defend
Not my voice, but my silence

Anna Akhmatova

#3. If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

Lysander Spooner

#4. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Ford Frick

#5. Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

James Cook

#6. Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

Karen Barad

#7. She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Julie Anne Long

#8. Reason, you'll always be half-blind.

Marguerite Porete

#9. The burden isn't that everything has to be a book. It's that everything can be a book. And doesn't count as life until it is.

Philip Roth

#10. I'd somehow always expected love to be primarily a mental state, so I still felt unaccustomed to the physical manifestation of my feelings for her: the way my stomach would grow tight, the way my chest would press in, my heart pounding blood hard and fast through my arteries.

Christina Lauren

#11. Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

David Brin

#12. Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?

Brian Regan

#13. Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

Karen Barad

#14. Ethics is not a
geometrical calculation; "others" are never very far from "us"; "they" and "we" are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts "we" help to enact. Cuts cut "things" together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

Karen Barad

#15. Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?
--------- boney fingers - boney fingers...

Hoyt Axton

#16. I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

Kate Winslet

#17. You think it's a blessing to know what God wants?

Paul Schrader