Failing Quote by Monique Wittig Download Open image “Remember. Or, failing that, invent.” — Monique Wittig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Innovation Inspirational Love Memory Remember
To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.” — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image