Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#representation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #representation




Taxation without representation is tyranny.


James Otis


#taxation #tyranny #without

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.


Rudolf Otto


#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.


Sidney Poitier


#circumstance #every #i #made #me

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.


Anna Quindlen


#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.


Kenneth Noland


#eye #i #interested #only #representation

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.


John Ruskin


#done #ever #good #pictorial #representation

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.


Peter Straub


#apparent #authority #call #could #events

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.


Steve King


#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.


Chris Ware


#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.


John Grisham


#because #been #criminal #death #defendants






back to top