Discourse famous quotes

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
-- Ben Jonson

#Speech #Harsh #Discourse

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.
-- Bob Etheridge

#Discourse

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Grace #Doctrine #Discourse

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
-- Dennis Potter

#Mask #Disguise #Discourse

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
-- Diogenes

#Dance #Virtue #Discourse

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
-- Jacques Derrida

#Poetic #Methodology #Discourse

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
-- Jacques Lacan

#Discourse #Unconscious

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Kind #Discourse #Scientific Knowledge

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
-- Jimmy Wales

#Discourse #Charlatans #Lunatic

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.
-- Kenneth Goldsmith

#Bait #Troll #Discourse

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
-- Neil Armstrong

#Levels #Discourse

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
-- Rae Armantrout

#Mean #Half #Discourse

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
-- Samuel R. Delany

#Rhetoric #Discourse

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
-- Alison Assiter

#Feminism #Fiction #Discourse

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
-- Amy Koppelman

#Made #Mets #Discourse

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).
-- Paul S. Kemp

#Stories #Inspired #Discourse

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.
-- Susan Fiske

#Goal #Respectful #Discourse

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
-- Winston Smith

#Discourse #Attribution #Bane