Edward Said Quotes

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

Edward Said

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: palestinian
  • Birth: November 1, 1935 - September 25, 2003

Topics

TimeSayAlmostHeEveryAbout

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

GirlTogetherSchoolMeYouSeen

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

Joe Lhota

LoveTaxEqualAdministrationAble

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Joel Salatin

TechnologyEyeTeethGrandparents

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

John Madden

FootballSimpleYouPhysicsGet

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Maureen O'Hara

MeStarGoingJamaicaMakeKnew

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

John S. Watson

TimeAmericaLongLightsLong Time

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

John Van Hamersveld

ChangeLiveWorldDreamCalifornia

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Tom Sizemore

TimeBelieveYouJazzFirst Time

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

LoveWomenWordsLearnBackHard

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

LifeMemoriesTimeExperienceFacts

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

Colin Mochrie

ChangeNameWillHeyHeSting

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

Brian Grazer

CultureThinkPlanetHereGlobal

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