Quotes About Representation

Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.

Your vote is your voice.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.

This is the fiction that I'm referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Das, was wirklich ist, kann man mit Wörtern ohnehin immer nur annähernd beschreiben; ein Wort ist eben nie genau die Sache selber.

Tap?naklar?n ihtiÅŸam? ve Tanr? tasvirlerinin sanat?, 'humus' tabakas?ndan yukar?ya besleyici bir g?da ta??yabilecek olan 'kökler' fikrine izin vermez. Bu g?da tam da binalar üzerine bina, tasvirler üzerine tasvir ederek çekildiÄŸi düÅŸünülen s?n?rlar?n d???nda b?rak?land?r.

the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible

The study, therefore, of the representation of visible nature and of the powers of expression possessed by form and colour is the object of the painter's training.

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

neo-blaxploitation

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.