Quotes About Author

To be in "play" in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless activity.

Those five domains—body, aesthetics or play, sociability, family, and work—are the domains we claim to be conditions for linguistic existence.

1980s and declared "I'm very happy to be in Bolivia," it seemed to confirm all of our worst fears. Nothing stung Brazilian sensibilities more than not being properly recognized by the bigger and much richer continental giant in the hemisphere.

The United States had the Homestead Act of 1862, which enshrined small landholdings and laid the foundation for the world's most prosperous middle class.

What we were really writing about was the beginning of globalization

About how much is autobiographical in my fiction, I could say nothing and everything.

A los cincuenta años de edad, en plena dicha, Óscar Echeverri murió en Risaralda: de muerte natural, como se muere en Colombia: asesinado.

En Colombia no hay más esterilizada que ella misma, a la que, como con un cauterio, entre periodistas y políticos, la iglesia y la FIFA, le esterilizaron el alma.

ferris I do have a test today. that wasn't bull. it's on european socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not european. I don't plan on being european. so who gives a crap if they're socialists they could be fasict anarcists. it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

The historical lesson is that a revolutionary party can carry out tactical movements, but it mustn't commit strategic errors.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

with a spoon in his hand, and when the spoon clanged

said, pointing Kirin to a line on his ledger. 'Evening meal's

How disconcerting it was to have an idle fantasy turn into real life attraction.

I have settled, in short, from reading my own writings, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.

He said 'I'm going to eat your profits to make a point nobody understands, please vote for me.' And there's a lot of trained seals that listen to him and they clap.

Justice for everyone is an alarming thought because it raises the possibility that it might come upon oneself after all. As the author of Ephesians puts it, "by nature" we are all "children of wrath, like the rest of mankind" (Eph. 2:3).

Joshua M. Greene, author Justice at Dachau

the Bible is a book dealing with the science of the mind.

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property, and if it were a question of poetry we would likely find that she is the daughter of love.

Pour juger de la beauté d'un ouvrage, il suffit de le considérer en lui-même ; mais, pour juger du mérite de l'auteur, il faut le comparer à son siècle

Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales