Jacques Lacan Quotes

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

Jacques Lacan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981

Topics

PlaceSayWhyWillWhereverWhere

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

Matthew Ramsey

GreatWritingThinkBandCapableUs

Love is boundary-less.

Angel Haze

LoveLove Is

You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.

Steve Wynn

RealityYouConversationWillAny

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

Roger Bannister

TimeQualityWeekWaste TimeMore

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

Roger Corman

TodayBudgetLateMatterStarted

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

Robert Walpole

NameHouseFortyYearsPosterity

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Marvin Harris

GoodFoodGrowing UpGrowingHealthy

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Donald Hall

WisdomImportantAlwaysEverything

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

CharacterResponsibilityMeSomeone

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

Anthony Mackie

YouPersonNobodyMoviesLeadUp

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Phyllis Bottome

BusinessRightExpensiveOften

Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

Paul Watson

DreamsYour DreamsTomorrowWorld

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