Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Quotes to Explore
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
Laura Dern -
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey -
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
Maeve Binchy -
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna -
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
E. F. Schumacher -
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish -
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
Vince Gill -
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
Eden Hazard -
To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
Carine Roitfeld -
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
Barry Ritholtz -
If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
Zach LaVine -
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Harry Browne -
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
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We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.
Alain Wertheimer -
Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
Dale Carnegie -
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
Flume -
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson -
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti