Nachmittag Eines Quotes

#1. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler

#2. So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

Baba Kalyani

#3. I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

Robert Motherwell

#4. Unity is strength ... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#5. Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.

Tony Clark

#6. My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.

Jennifer Echols

#7. But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.

Jaume Cabre

#8. Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Jalal Talabani

#9. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.

Lord Byron

#10. [A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Peter J. Carroll