Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: August 10, 1924 - April 21, 1998

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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Jess Walter

WorkFunnyStepSupportImportant

There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.

Angela Duckworth

LifePathTimeWorthResistanceOut

Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major... A golfer's career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit.

Jeev Milkha Singh

OpportunityI AmLessonCareerWill

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Michael J. Fox

LifeNaturePowerHumbleMeI Can

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

Sia

ParentsAnythingBlamingRefrain

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Roberta Smith

SisterWorldSeriousSayHacker

I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.

Mike Love

GoodGreatFunMeHelpCalifornia

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

Dennis Haysbert

AgeMyselfOld AgeThoughtAthlete

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Douglas Coupland

I AmWritingWantMorePatientGet

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

Chick Corea

TimeCollegeWantArtsLiberal Arts

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Christian Lous Lange

AnimalSurviveHelpImportantMeans

Most of my memories are of softball games in Falls Church with my sister, yard sales across town on the weekends with my grandma, grocery-shopping and errand-running with my mom, learning to drive an old Volkswagen bug down Old Keene Mill Road with my dad.

Christina Tosi

LearningMemoriesMomSisterRoad

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