Quotes About New Historicism

#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. Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

#3. What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?

Rudyard Kipling

#4. Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

Criss Jami

#5. I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

James G. Frazer

#6. I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

Amy Lee

#7. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Anonymous

#9. [Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Richard Brookhiser

#10. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

Jay Leno

#11. I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

Richard Dawkins