The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
ROLAND BARTHES Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a...
ROLAND BARTHES What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
ROLAND BARTHES I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
ROLAND BARTHES To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and un...
ROLAND BARTHES The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new fil...
ROLAND BARTHES Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, De...
ROLAND BARTHES The photographic image... is a message without a code.
ROLAND BARTHES To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because t...
ROLAND BARTHES To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is ...
ROLAND BARTHES Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an enviro...
ROLAND BARTHES Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
ROLAND BARTHES What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the co...
ROLAND BARTHES There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and p...
ROLAND BARTHES Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...
ROLAND BARTHES All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular s...
ROLAND BARTHES The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his s...
ROLAND BARTHES The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
ROLAND BARTHES Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and prole...
ROLAND BARTHES There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spect...
ROLAND BARTHES Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it ...
ROLAND BARTHES I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the s...
ROLAND BARTHES Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a co...
ROLAND BARTHES The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ROLAND BARTHES Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we f...
ROLAND BARTHES What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the c...
ROLAND BARTHES There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
ROLAND BARTHES We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
ROLAND BARTHES For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w...
ROLAND BARTHES If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip unders...
ROLAND BARTHES You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...
ROLAND BARTHES Aucun n'est d'un métal si pur qu'il laisse l'autre sans voix.
ROLAND BARTHES A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated acc...
ROLAND BARTHES Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably mu...
ROLAND BARTHES ...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in ...
ROLAND BARTHES Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or clo...
ROLAND BARTHES As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desir...
ROLAND BARTHES Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meanin...
ROLAND BARTHES Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from ...
ROLAND BARTHES Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify...
ROLAND BARTHES To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without some...
ROLAND BARTHES My anxieties as to behavior are futile, ever more so, to infinity. If the other, incidentally or neg...
ROLAND BARTHES Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi...
ROLAND BARTHES What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
ROLAND BARTHES A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
ROLAND BARTHES Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the par...
ROLAND BARTHES For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first ph...
ROLAND BARTHES There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it
ROLAND BARTHES I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utter...
ROLAND BARTHES Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm ...
ROLAND BARTHES Very often (too often in my view) I was aware of being photographed. So, from the moment I feel I am...
ROLAND BARTHES New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of ...
ROLAND BARTHES The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good,...
ROLAND BARTHES As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being s...
ROLAND BARTHES But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not loo...
ROLAND BARTHES I have a disease; I see language.
ROLAND BARTHES Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that ...
RONALD BARTHES Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink.
To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're f...
HENRY BARTHES Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the abil...
ROLAND JOFFE It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
ROLAND GIFT I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
HELEN ROLAND The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don...
ALEX ROLAND NASA is plodding along doing what it's been doing for decades, ... Astronauts have been flying up th...
ALEX ROLAND in a budget crisis of its own making.
ALEX ROLAND There is no question in my mind that it would be best policy to say forget it,
ALEX ROLAND We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget th...
ALEX ROLAND It's probably harmless, ... but it trivializes the space program. It seems as if they've got nothing...
ALEX ROLAND Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.
ALEX ROLAND I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen), ... Alas, he was already discovered when I first m...
ALEX ROLAND Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
MME. ROLAND Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
ROLAND JOFFE I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.
ROLAND MARTIN Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British...
ROLAND JOFFE Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of th...
ROLAND ALLEN I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or ...
ROLAND MARTIN The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination...
ROLAND ALLEN Mike was one match away from making the championships.
CHAD ROLAND We wanted Joe to push the pace against A.J.. Joe wrestled a smart match and kept the pace high. He h...
CHAD ROLAND David's really anxious to get on the mat and get that WPIAL berth.
CHAD ROLAND We're starting to shift our focus to the individual mode.
CHAD ROLAND The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the who...
ROLAND JOFFE To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is a...
ROLAND ALLEN I was tagging along and it was lunchtime, so my dad took me into the Busy Bee. I had a hamburger and...
ROLAND KAMPMEIER We're very proud of Kate for attaining this certification. She's a true professional who works very ...
ROLAND BLOSSOM My mother raised nine kids in a tiny house with no electricity and no running water.
ROLAND MESNIER I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a coup...
ROLAND MARTIN They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that...
ROLAND JOFFE This is a great opportunity for Felton. He's an outstanding young man with unlimited potential and a...
DENNIS ROLAND Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually...
ROLAND ALLEN Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out...
ROLAND ALLEN I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of t...
ROLAND ALLEN What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only...
ROLAND ALLEN In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of t...
ROLAND ALLEN The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit ...
ROLAND ALLEN There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the ...
ROLAND ALLEN If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty o...
ROLAND ALLEN It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a...
ROLAND ALLEN While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influ...
ROLAND GIFT But, of course, putting yourself out there takes vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and we, as a ...
PHIL ROLAND Villanelle - Roland Leighton

Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON Nachkland - Roland Leighton

Down the long white road we walked together
Down between...
ROLAND LEIGHTON As long as war hasn't started there will be uncertainty, there will be volatility and there will be ...
ROLAND LESCURE There were burnt cars all over the place and helicopters circling overhead. Burning cars make a big ...
YVONNE ROLAND We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can sus...
CHRIS ROLAND The key to the game was that stop from Castro.
ROLAND HEDGPETH There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force...
ROLAND EMMERICH Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match ...
ROLAND JOFFE It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that,...
ROLAND ALLEN There's no question that the LMDC has been deeply wounded. We need to call upon the governor and the...
ROLAND BETTS They're really good, and they did things that are so different from one another that it's astounding...
ROLAND BETTS There's no question that the LMDC has been deeply wounded here,
ROLAND BETTS The decision was pre-emptive. That's just fundamentally wrong.
ROLAND BETTS People wanted to see the skyline restored; the skyline is restored by all seven teams. The plans loo...
ROLAND BETTS No plan, in its current configuration, is perfect.
ROLAND BETTS We're going to develop a variety of options that will mix commercial and retail space on the site --...
ROLAND BETTS In addition to the world watching, the world is participating.
ROLAND BETTS It doesn't matter if the firms that respond are the largest or the most best-known around the world....
ROLAND BETTS I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this. It's like a powder keg that ...
ROLAND KOCH I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd tol...
ROLAND MERULLO We burn them, as prescribed by law. We did it a while back and had a large crowd.
ROLAND CARTER With Jedi, I was amazed that you could make a half a movie out of a finale.
ROLAND EMMERICH The movie is fiction, ... We'd like to keep it that way.
ROLAND EMMERICH Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feelin...
ROLAND GIFT It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea...
CHRIS ROLAND My own opinion is that a playoff would be exciting. It would get rid of all the questions about who ...
DENNIS ROLAND My first 18-foot pole vault wasn't any more of a thrill than my first clearance at 15 or 16 or 17 fo...
ROLAND CARTER I was opposed to the deal but all my cabinet colleagues were in favour,
ROLAND DUMAS Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 The apostles were moved, not so much by an in...
ROLAND ALLEN What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only...
ROLAND ALLEN Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 To preach the Gospel requires that the ...
ROLAND ALLEN It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the momen...
ROLAND ALLEN Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It wi...
ROLAND ALLEN The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go ...
ROLAND ALLEN Amy Carter loved to bake her own cookies.
ROLAND MESNIER My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'T...
ROLAND MARTIN I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obl...
ROLAND GIFT Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions abou...
ROLAND MERULLO Marsh has distinguished itself as a great corporate citizen, and anything that allows it to continue...
ROLAND DORSON There were burnt cars all over the place and helicopters circling overhead.
YVONNE ROLAND I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this.
ROLAND KOCH I'm really anxious to know what resonates with the public.
ROLAND BETTS I make Mexican food, Italian food, pasta, but now I just use a meat substitute.
CHRIS ROLAND It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
ROLAND GIFT The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread i...
ROLAND AVANTE We haven't seen the peso at low 52 levels for a long time, so those who are not so optimistic are no...
ROLAND AVANTE At a price of $67-68 a barrel, oil companies need to source about $100 million from the spot market ...
ROLAND AVANTE There's positive sentiment toward the VAT implementation and corporate demand for dollars is thin.
ROLAND AVANTE Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Gro...
ROLAND ALLEN Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); ...
ROLAND ALLEN The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the ...
ROLAND ALLEN [St. Paul] always contrived to bring his hearers to a point. There was none of the indeterminate, in...
ROLAND ALLEN Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach me...
ROLAND ALLEN This total and entire conversion of the inner man, this absolute doing away of the old and acceptanc...
ROLAND ALLEN Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on educa...
ROLAND ALLEN The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Chri...
ROLAND ALLEN Continuing a series on the church: We must not admit for one moment the truth of a statement often...
ROLAND ALLEN Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 If we allow the cons...
ROLAND ALLEN Pentecost The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, an...
ROLAND ALLEN Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out...
ROLAND ALLEN There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the ...
ROLAND ALLEN In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by the...
ROLAND ALLEN In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of t...
ROLAND ALLEN Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of th...
ROLAND ALLEN The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that...
ROLAND ALLEN Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 Christ had given the apost...
ROLAND ALLEN We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith th...
ROLAND MARTIN I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought...
ROLAND JOFFE I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me wheth...
ROLAND JOFFE Every year, Tennessee always gets the most out of their players and they did tonight. We knew we had...
ROLAND THORNQVIST This album is the same balance we've always had with melodic, riff-based rock songs, but we brought ...
DEAN ROLAND I want people to feel the good energy, the good place that we are in.
DEAN ROLAND I guess with music becoming so disposable, things just happen so much faster now. The short answer t...
DEAN ROLAND Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH There are gators, thousands of them. " said Rashawn.
" Then we better get out of here before w...
ROLAND SMITH This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion.
"Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase.
"Not r...
ROLAND SMITH I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you thr...
ROLAND MARTIN I think all three of them are going to be in a battle going into fall camp. The battle might be won ...
DENNIS ROLAND They're special. We're blessed to have them. They help us in so many different ways. They help us wi...
DENNIS ROLAND I think we're making progress. It was hard with not having some of the starting offensive linemen; i...
DENNIS ROLAND I'd give up having the most wins for that national championship.
DENNIS ROLAND We were trying to pin them deep. And we just had a breakdown in our coverage. The films may show som...
DENNIS ROLAND They were doing a real good job running some games on defense, some games we had not seen. Give cred...
DENNIS ROLAND That's something we've got to get better at. You play a great team like them and they're going to ma...
DENNIS ROLAND (My players) want to be good in this conference. They've been looking forward to this for a long tim...
DENNIS ROLAND In a sense, they now have regular problems. They deal with real-world problems. They're not on a ped...
DAVID ROLAND In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by the...
ROLAND ALLEN My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.
ROLAND MARTIN For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to se...
ROLAND SMITH I've got two more rounds of treatment that I had been mentally putting off. But now I know I can go ...
DENNIS ROLAND The government is taking away choice. That is just fundamentally un-American.
DAVID ROLAND We're seeing comics in Hollywood, ... and we're also seeing Hollywood in comics.
DAVID ROLAND The movies have helped some. We're seeing a new generation of readers. We're seeing a lot of kids. W...
DAVID ROLAND Comics aren't just for kids anymore.
DAVID ROLAND I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a ...
ROLAND JOFFE Glen has been a tremendous force in the success of this organization as well as a tireless servant f...
JAMES ROLAND I hope this year will be as good as last year. The chamber is driven by its membership, and I'm thri...
JAMES ROLAND Everyone had something else going on. In the end, it landed on Glenn's shoulders to hold the organiz...
JAMES ROLAND The chamber has sort of come together out of the rubble of this disaster.
JAMES ROLAND Many individual business owners aren't waiting, ... but are involved in their own rebuilding project...
JAMES ROLAND The community is by and large looking to the future.
JAMES ROLAND