“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.”
Roland Barthes
“To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.”
William Rotsler
“That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.”
Carl Andre
“When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.”
Evita Perón
“The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force,”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.”
Calvin Trillin
“Somewhere along the line, you and others entered into a scheme where you took the names of impoverished, Medicaid-eligible students and billed the state of Louisiana for those services -- even though some of those children never saw the inside of your office, ... That's what the crime is, here.”
James Brady
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