Jacques Lacan Quotes
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
-
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
-
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
-
I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
-
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
-
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
-
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
-
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
-
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
-
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
-
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
-
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
-
Tone matters more than words.
-
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
-
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
-
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
-
We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.
-
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
-
Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
-
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
-
What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you might print that and you might print a couple more and take elements of all three. It just depends. You're looking for the highlights. You're looking for the best elements of the scene, but preferably you'd like to have one good take that would go all the way through.
-
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
