Poststructuralism Quotes

#1. Poststructuralism ... is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

Naomi Wolf

#2. Perhaps the nearest one could get to a common characteristic of poststructuralism would be a radical suspicion of reason, order and certainty as governing principles of knowledge and existence...the absurd and the irrational can no longer be distinguished from the real and the rational

Margaret Maclure

#3. If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

Bo Bennett

#4. I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.

Joe Girard

#6. Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

Euripides

#7. When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

William Levy

#8. The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

Sara Gruen

#10. Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

Jane Rogers

#11. I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

Arlen Specter

#12. There at least is a first affirmation, I mean negation, on which to build.

Samuel Beckett

#13. Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

John T. Scopes

#14. I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

Pete Wentz

#15. I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

Neil Diamond

#16. The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

George Gregan

#17. There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Antony Garrett Lisi