Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Topics: Authority Quotes, Inventions Quotes, Passion Quotes

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...