Roland Barthes Quotes

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980

Topics

LoveLove IsLanguageToo MuchTry

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Jeremy Taylor

GreatAngerSmallRidiculousAlways

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

Jennifer Egan

GoodLuckGood LuckYearLongYou

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

John Muir

EarthSameDustCreatorUsCommon

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

John Lewis

DogBirdHunterWhoGets

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

Robert Gottlieb

LoveDanceMeYearMoreEverything

I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.

Amy Landecker

OpinionPerformanceThinkWantShe

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Josiah Royce

GodWinMeaningUniquenessTrueHim

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

Doreen Cronin

DayPolicePhonePhone CallSingle

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

Donald Trump

ThinkPartyDemocratsRepublicans

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

Brian Grazer

MistakesPeopleSpeakThoughtfulTry

I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.

Christy Turlington

KidEvenReallyGangly

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

Brooke Burke

TimeMistakesBelieveHurtLearnGo

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