#texts

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#passages #philosophy #poetic #realism #revert

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#apart #back #english #english major #find

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#back #english #english major #find #fun

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#been #composer #dependent #i #texts

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

I've done many different movies in many different contexts. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#different #done #i #many #movies

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#conduct #motives #our #pretexts #usually

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i