Stuart Hall Encoding Decoding Quotes

#1. Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Richard J. Foster

#2. Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Nicolas Chamfort

#3. We live in a wrong time," Yang said.

Yiyun Li

#4. The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

Magic Johnson

#5. The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Wright Morris

#6. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.

Kiera Cass

#7. I'm pretty sure there will be duck-hunting in heaven and I can't wait!

Mike Huckabee

#8. There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin.

Anton Chekhov

#9. A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

Jase Robertson

#10. Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

Jesse Owens

#12. There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope.

James A. Oliver