There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes contradiction outrage speech
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. J. L. Austin actceremonialcharacter Change image and share on social
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. J. L. Austin callproperlyvague Change image and share on social
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. J. L. Austin backcommonlyhappen Change image and share on social
A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not. Frank Pierson alivefreelive Change image and share on social
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. Orson Welles aesthetecontradictionlive share on social
The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out. Adam McKay antiauthoritarianbank share on social