Logo
Quote by Roland Barthes
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to im

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Society
Author
Roland Barthes
Read Quote

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Language
Author
Roland Barthes
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sports
category

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. – Chris Rock

Category:
Sports

I think Bob Costas is terrific. Hes so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports. – Jim McKay

Category:
Sports

The thing about sports movies is, they cant help but feel epic – putting music to images, etc. – Lindsey Shaw

Category:
Sports

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career. – Sergei Bubka

Category:
Sports

Random Quotes

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. – George Boole

Category:
Knowledge

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now. – James Broughton

Category:
Future

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes – click, click, click. – Paul Prudhomme

Category:
Food

Im a sucker for sad disco pop. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Category:
sad