“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.” PlayLanguageFiguresExpressionPerceptionRelationPreservesReplay Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.” WayYearsFirstsHumansChildrenHas BeensVoiceSilenceAttitudeSituationFiguresFitGayAdultsRelationSizeCurrentsActiveNineHandleDesperateDimensionsComplaintsEighteenSexuallyNine YearsOne Size Fits All Author:Samuel R. Delany
“What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know that it deals with numbers, figures, with relations, operations, and that its formal procedures involving axioms, proofs, lemmas, theorems have not changed since the time of Archimedes.” PeopleKnowsDealsNumbersFiguresChangedRelationMathematicsProofOperationsFormalDefiningProceduresInvolvingAxiomsTheoremsExactly Is Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.” HumansArtTwoFacesAttentionBrainFocusFiguresBabyRelationArchitectureLandscapeOur RelationshipDotsHuman Faces Author:Dave McKean
“Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.” PeopleResponsibilityPlayerFiguresRelationFortunePublic Figures Author:Gerard Houllier
“President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDoneTogetherPresidentDecisionRaceLeaderFiguresRelationChosenTensionDividedPresident ObamaCould Have BeenRace RelationsUnifyingRacial Tension Author:Ted Cruz
“We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's sad, honestly, I think it's a place that deep down no one wants to be in. But it's something that needs to be addressed, it's something that needs to be fixed, and hopefully we can figure it out and take steps toward doing that.” ThinkingWantNeedsAmericaRaceStepsFiguresRelationRegardHonestlyHopefullyFixedCrucialRace RelationsDeep DownTippingTipping Point Author:Andrew Hawkins
“The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsLooksHas BeensMadeFactsAmericaMovingCoursesDifferencesFiguresBrotherRelationIllnessSignificantOpeningNegotiationCubaOpening UpCastroMoving AheadLooming Author:Amy Klobuchar
“Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.” MindTermMediaFiguresIndustryBearsRelationAcademicEngineeringConsentScholarshipBorrowedPublic Relations Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.” PeopleIfsWayHumansChildrenYoungParentExistenceFiguresCivilizationUniversalBasesRelationGet AwayMatureControlledRobotsHuman ExistenceChildren And Parents Author:Eugene Green
“We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.” IfsMenWayGivingTryingHumansDoeMatterGovernmentPracticeFiguresTaxesRelationNo Matter WhatBlindUnionsAfghanistanNew WaysBicycleHuman RelationsInhumanBlind ManEggheads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.” ThinkingWayMeanPersonsGuyNextWhiteRaceLaughingFiguresRacismOkayRelationYeahBigotryRace RelationsEnding Racism Author:Bill Cosby
“Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems; he would be an important figure in the history of gay writing and in the history of transatlantic literary relations even were his poetry not so good as it is. With his life as it was and his works as they are, he's an obvious candidate for a volume of retrospective and critical essays, and this one is first-rate.” WritingFirstsImportantSeemsWould BeLanguageFiguresGayRelationEndureRateObviousCriticalCandidatesAccomplishedFascinatingVolumeDelightfulEssaysEnglish LanguageRetrospective Author:Stephen Burt