Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#defining

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #defining




Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.


Benjamin Whorf


#device #experience #framework #language #reporting

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.


Warren Ellis


#comics #humor #humor

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.


David Graeber


#capitalism #redefining-consumption #dreams

The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something.


Meg Jay


#life

Everyone wears clothing, yes? Society divides these clothing up into Men & Women’s, Boys & Girls’, Jr. & Miss. But society cannot decide who wears what. While the fabric may be cut to suit a traditionally male or female body (boy or girls body), the second the buyer purchases the item, that clothing no longer becomes 'boys' or 'girls' clothes, but rather, the buyers clothes. This is an example of the individual defining the identity term vs. the identity term defining the individual.


Cristina Marrero


#defining #glbt #identity-terms #men

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.


Malcolm Bradbury


#culture #defining #detail #way #world

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.


Ken Burns


#being #defining #deprive #good #history

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.


Max Eastman


#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.


Tony Snow


#again #america #day #defining #deserves

I don't like defining myself. I just am.


Britney Spears


#defining #i #just #like #myself






back to top