Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“A timely and necessary guide for anyone caught between religion and non-belief. There is a third path -- guided by reason, grounded… — S.D. Hagen Copy Share Image
“In the life of many churches, the habits of anti-intellectualism are planted early. Children are encouraged to open themselves up to the… — Jon Ward Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.” — Perry Nodelman Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
“Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now… — Barbara Vinken Copy Share Image