Jacques Lacan Quotes

The I is always in the field of the Other.

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• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Famous
  • Internet

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Different
  • School
  • Years

• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Child
  • Field
  • Playground

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham

• Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

  

  Priscilla Ahn
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I've always wanted to go on 'The View!'

  

  Ed Schultz

• I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.

  

  James Turrell
  • Dream
  • Light

• Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

  

  John Heywood
  • Long

• I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Art
  • Chaos

• We're getting walls up; we're getting the scoreboard taken care of. [We're getting the] field painted with our new logos and everything, and we're excited.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Up
  • Taken
  • Field

• I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Field

• I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Creativity

• In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Life
  • Different
  • Past

• There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Advantage
  • Field
  • Gained

• People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Whole

• To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Deal

• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Cause

• The I is always in the field of the Other.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Field