Quotes About Topos

#1. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such

Georges Bataille

#2. Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Umberto Eco

#3. In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

William C. Brown

#4. I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Kristin Kreuk

#5. Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?

Robert B. Reich

#6. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Thomas E. Donilon

#8. Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

Mors Kochanski

#9. Your life is determined by the sum of the choices that YOU make.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

Seungsahn

#11. Adrian: Do you smell that?"
Sydney: "I smell the paint, and ... wait ... is that pine?"
Adrian: "Damn straight. Pine-scented cleaner. As in, I cleaned. With these hands, these hands that don't do manual labor.

Richelle Mead

#12. Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

#13. For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

Butch Otter

#14. I'd sooner believe in a ghost story than believe in love."
"That doesn't matter," I told her. "Love still believes in you.

Natalie Lloyd

#15. From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism.

Thomas More

#16. The answer to everything; trust in your heart.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann