Blanchot And Lacan Quotes

#1. The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

Conan O'Brien

#2. Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

James Caan

#3. That's all an angel is ... an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart

#4. Life is short and death is eternal.

Rick Riordan

#5. I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

James Cameron

#6. Dance well with a woman, he thought smugly, and she's halfway yours.

Robert Jordan

#7. I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

Demetri Martin

#8. One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

Douglas Hofstadter

#9. Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!

Bryant McGill

#10. Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Jamie Dimon

#11. But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

Eleanor Catton

#12. When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Tom Glazer

#13. I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!

Mitch Hedberg

#14. The Fates teleported me to the ascended angels staff lounge. It wasn't called that, naturally. We weren't staff. This wasn't a job. It was a calling. An honor. A noble mission. Bullshit.

Kelley Armstrong