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Figure Quotes by Roland Barthes
- All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the…
- I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my…
- It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the…
- The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very…
More Figure Quotes
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. — Lance Armstrong
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure. — Michele Bachmann
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. — Erykah Badu
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for… — Antonio Banderas
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry