Michel Foucault Quotes

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984

Topics

BookStopBeyondNeverFirstWithin

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Jim Ratcliffe

EmployeesUnionsEngageRoleProper

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Maurice Strong

EnvironmentalPatternsShiftLess

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Sienna Miller

LiveSocietyThinkEqual

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

Tony Perez

GameGuessingFoodsCame

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

Marvin Hagler

ActingRealBecauseGetLikeMuch

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Mohsin Hamid

SelfEasyPrettyImagineSenseYour

Everything was good when I was in Japan, and then, unfortunately, the injuries started.

Mirko Cro Cop

GoodInjuriesEverythingStarted

Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Colin O'Donoghue

BestSucceedSorryFeelYouGuilty

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.

Claire Tomalin

GoodManAmericaYoungYoung Man

I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities.

Alice Temperley

LoveVintageDecisionsClothesGo

You can't just turn love on and off.

Shania Twain

LoveYouTurnOffJustOn And Off

One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.

Tina St. John

WritingWorldStoryFreshFans

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