Lyotard The Postmodern Quotes

#1. The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

John Hench

#2. Investment will lead to employment; employment means better income; it means selling more cars.

Winfried Vahland

#3. You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

#5. You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Florence Welch

#6. Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#7. Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

Robert Kennedy

#8. It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Albert Jay Nock

#9. Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth ...
And try to linger on.
But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil.

Heather Graham

#10. Now," she told them, "now is the time to be afraid of the dark." Richard knew that something was about to creep over his face. He closed his eyes: it made no difference to what he saw or felt. The night was complete.

Neil Gaiman

#11. A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#12. Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Barbet Schroeder

#13. En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor.

Agatha Christie

#14. Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#15. Homemaking is whatever you make of it. Every day brings satisfaction along with some work which may be frustrating, routine, and unchallenging. But it is the same in the law office, the dispensary, the laboratory, or the store. There is, however, no more important job than homemaking.

James E. Faust

#16. Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that can easily be translated into a dogmatic metanarrative of its own. In

David Bentley Hart

#17. It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

Shaunti Feldhahn

#18. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.

Thomas Hardy