Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes
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
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didnt think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. – Arnold Schwarzenegger