"We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship."

-- Ihab Hassan

#Names Quotes #White Quotes #Offering Quotes

“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”
“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.
“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.”

Source : "Searching for a way to break the rules" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
“A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.”
“Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary] Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.”
“Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.”
“I have nothing intelligent to say.”

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