Lavelle Quotes

#1. Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#2. My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Robert Rauschenberg

#3. She found that books, the well-written ones, had the power to transport her from a world that was sometimes overstressed and over stimulating to a wholly new place of the author's imaginations.

J.N. LaVelle

#4. If you can't turn back the clock, you move forward.

Dori Lavelle

#5. I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

Lee Kuan Yew

#6. I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Judith Light

#7. It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Wallace Shawn

#8. They had kilts on instead of pants, but you just didn't see six feet-plus of immortal warrior panicking about anything often, but panicking in a kitchen with pots in their hands and the oven open while they peered inside in a puzzled manner was a very special and endearing type of panic.

Laurell K. Hamilton