Appropriation Quotes (page 7)

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• explorers
• every
• explored

Every exploration is an appropriation. Roland Barthes

• war
• blue
• painting

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. Kurt Vonnegut

• value
• management
• sets

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages. Michael Harrington

• feeling down
• fall
• ultimate

O your life, your lonely life What have you ever done with it, And done with the great gift of consciousness? What will you ever do before Death's knife Provides the answer ultimate and appropriate? As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls, Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vast Draft of the abyss sucking him down and down, An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown: This is the way the night passes by, this Is the overnight endless trip to the famous... Delmore Schwartz

• blue
• painting
• war

And I propose to you that if we are to pay our sincere respects to the hundred lost children of San Lorenzo, that we might best spend the day despising what killed them; which is to say, the stupidity and viciousness of all mankind."Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. Kurt Vonnegut

• powerful
• power
• powers

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini

• management
• player
• feeling

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back. Dale Murphy

• time
• men
• grace

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Malcolm Muggeridge

• respect
• feeling
• political

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines. Marc Morial

• saying
• year
• broadcasting

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. Christopher Monckton

• find
• finding
• findings

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised. Mark Millar

• discipline
• player
• oneness

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions. Ethel Merman

• thoughts
• invent
• thought

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. Thomas Huxley

• black white
• people
• black

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. Jasmine Guy

• success
• moving
• style

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style. James Gunn