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Roland Barthes Quotes

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Roland Barthes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Theatre Better Short Long Never

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

John F. Kennedy

Great People World Free Say Berlin

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

John Sayles

Know Young Stories Really Thing

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Amy Lee

Me Hair Said Out Off Fan

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

Alton Brown

Daughter Food Job School Lunch Go

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.'

Steven R. McQueen

World Impact Said Want Movies Saw

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.

Shonda Rhimes

Women Believe Think Feel You Want

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

Roop Durgapal

Life Water Best People Farmers

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

Miguel de Icaza

Work Building Tools See Successful

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Louis Navellier

Year Election Market Between How

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Delmore Schwartz

Suffering Me More Always Pleasure

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

Clint Smith

Poetry World Engineering Career Will

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

Claire Danes

Great Privilege Relationships See