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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!


Camille Paglia

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CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER They all have skill ability. They are all guys who work hard and they have the respect of their team...
BOB STOOPS Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not n...
JOHN GREEN Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER What we are talking about is way out in front of where most of our customers are at the moment. But ...
TIM ALLEN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our chil...
KAILASH SATYARTHI They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER They're sensational!
HARRY STYLES If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin...
ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815.
HARALDUR SIGURDSSON Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they ...
WALTER LIPPMANN All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are clea...
JACK ALLEN Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are no...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their cod...
MARILYN FRENCH All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have ga...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
MARILYN FRENCH People whose voices were filled with sarcasm, hostility, coldness, and arrogance are often people wh...
THE ELDEST If you look at Chelsea, they have a mature team. All their players are between 25 and 30. They have ...
ARSENE WENGER Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternative...
ABBA EBAN History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternativ...
ABBA EBAN Once people see it, they are deeply impacted by it and so they tell all their friends. It's the kind...
JULIA TAYLOR There was like a two-week period where all of a sudden they had five teeth. Now they have nine, seve...
APRIL SIX Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY They are really a good team. I mean, they are very impressive. They're good in all phases of the gam...
GARY GARNER Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people t...
UZOMA NNADI Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms w...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms w...
MARGARET CHITTENDEN Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would ...
JOHN ADAMS But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Everywhere you go, that's all they are talking about.
JEANNIE FREEMAN These troops are from all walks of life. They are all unique cause they are all from Texas. They wil...
HOWARD PALMER I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - a...
ELI ROTH Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to on...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We all sing, but it's no secret, they really have the greatest voices out of all of us. And they sin...
CECE WINANS We look at their ability to learn, how fast they are, how quick they are. And their experience. What...
JOHN WARNOCK They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were al...
BETTY SMITH They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were a...
BETTY SMITH ...all things speak, in their way, don't they?
SHANNON HALE The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), ...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK These companies are kind of in a sandwich. They are not quite like a big enterprise with all of the ...
ORLANDO AYALA When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rol...
EMMUSKA ORCZY Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history...
DAVID CRONENBERG Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess piec...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes...
ISABELLA BIRD All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these pe...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS They all handle the puck. They all help each other get the puck. They have a tremendous work ethic, ...
JOE BATTISTA All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG These are original monuments. They are two hundred years old. They are very historically significant...
MIKE MITCHELL How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) They are being buried as we speak, 50 of them, all in the one grave.
ROSETTE LERIAS Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve...
COURTNEY M. PRIVETT They have five weapons on the floor at all times. They are big, strong and fast.
DENNIS DOYLE That's New England. They came out and basically dominated in all phases of the game. They were physi...
CADILLAC WILLIAMS In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE The legislature is going to be receptive to a five-year phase of increase. They realize there are so...
JOANNE TURSCHMAN The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. are the sole objects of all legit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrup...
BIBLE And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have be...
JOAN MIRO This is all we've been talking about. They came out and the numbers are marvelous.
LINDA JAY They know they have a chance, and they are all fired up.
CASSIE DESMONE They are at the starting line now. They have all the bioreactors in there. The pipes are connected. ...
EDWARD TENTHOFF Usually, they are buying all the bread and milk. Some of the regulars have told me they have their h...
TERESA HINES Usually they are buying all the bread and milk. Some of the regulars have told me they have their ha...
TERESA HINES Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive peo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of...
BIBLE If you look at old pictures of China, they are all riding bikes. Now, they all drive cars.
ANITA MANGELS They are all quick, safe, reliable and certainly not painful at all.
CAROLYN SMITH When ladies are between the ages of 19 and 24 years, lot of right men would come their way but just ...
ALALE ANTHONY These all are attempts to protect the weak party against other political powers. They are afraid of ...
GEORGE ISHAQ Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with wome...
MARILYN FRENCH They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to Chin...
DENIS KEARNEY Inside down deep a dancer lives. One way or another the dancer will get loose eventually.
BRENT M. JONES All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what...
WILL EISNER There's a bit of kitten in all of us.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's be...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. The...
ANDREW BIRD I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of...
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CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to des...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can wo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA When anything goes, it's women who lose.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking ru...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminis...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has bo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex...
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