Quotes About Deconstruction

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

In the middle of 'Monicagate', Bill Clinton himself used deconstruction in his own defence. Accused of lying when he had claimed not to have had sexual relations with the young intern, the President replied: 'It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is' – a typically Derridean utterance.

Los tres pilares de una perfecta obra de ingeniería dedicada a un único fin: esquivar la insoslayable verdad de la carne. Que es una prisión que se desmorona.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro. (Diccionario de las artes)

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

He deconstructed things in his head," I said slowly. "Then he put them back together in a way I could understand. Brilliance is seeing what others can't and rendering it simple.

What if I take you apart and turn you into a toaster oven, how would you like that tin can?

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.

I ain't against gods and goddesses, in their place. But they've got to be the ones we make ourselves. Then we can take 'em to bits for the parts when we don't need 'em anymore, see?

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

reducing other beings to their component parts.

As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as we got bigger, people began to dissect the songs, like a frog from biology class until there was nothing left but guts- tiny parts, so much less than the sum.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.