Phatic Quotes & Sayings

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it. — Gus Van Sant

We are measured, not by what we do, but by what we leave here on Earth — Larrie D. Ferreiro

Lasik surgery has evolved. Remarkably, it has merged with cataract surgery to give birth to a new procedure called Prelex. — Rajesh Khanna

When it is necessary to survive, then one cannot be brave anymore. — C.J. Cherryh

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?' — Giuliana Rancic

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years. — Rich Hall

I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them. — Lionel Suggs

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people. — Antonya Nelson

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment. — Michael Sheen

He very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me. — Andrew Saul

Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important. — Tracy Pollan

Swipe from the best, then adapt. — Tom Peters

Chatter then will be phatic discourse that has become an end in itself, but sports chatter is something more, a continuous phatic discourse that deceitfully passes itself off as talk of the City and its Ends. Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which he is invited and subjected). — Umberto Eco

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. — Maimonides

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot