Christopher Lasch Quotes

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994

Topics

LifeFamilyWaySameConsumerism

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Jill Lepore

GoodGenerationBadFindNumbers

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

Jens Voigt

FunnyStupidityHellLaughYouJump

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Meg Cabot

GoodWordsWritingChanceEndYou

I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

GoEatEverythingStillLikeOnce

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Steven Pinker

PushKindReasonUnitedBecause

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Trey Anastasio

ChildrenAnniversaryTogetherWife

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

Tony Shalhoub

TimeExperienceMeThinkFirst Time

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Tom Felton

GreatI AmWorkingVillainsManyAm

A lot of our family was undocumented. My mom and dad were both super conservative. My dad had a green card; my mom was an Eisenhower Republican who did not approve of all the 'illegal people.'

Luis Alberto Urrea

FamilyPeopleMomGreenConservative

What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.

Jose Carreras

SoulStepBrainVoiceEmotionsCall

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

Jonathan Galassi

WorkTogetherBookSlowFirstPoet

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton

DietSinglePotatoesBecauseOff

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