Top 17 Styers Quotes
#1. With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making.
-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 23
Randall Styers
#2. [Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.
-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17
Randall Styers
#3. It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'
Charles A. Beard
#4. You could see just a trace of the daughter there, the way she held her shoulders back, the length of her neck. It was a crime what time did to women.
Ann Patchett
#5. Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
John C. Maxwell
#6. If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#7. I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.
David Foster Wallace
#8. Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#9. The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
Ninette De Valois
#10. I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...
Diana Vreeland
#11. while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."
-- Making Magic, p. 13
Randall Styers
#12. Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.
-- Making Magic, p. 23
Randall Styers
#13. One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Aldo Rossi
#14. I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
Theo Jansen
#16. I don't know. I've never been on second before.
Lefty Gomez
#17. He's the be all and end all of my friends right now.
Katja Millay
