Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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• May
• Effort
• Painting
• Lazy
• Communicate
• Poem

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Question
  • Realize

• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Stuff
  • Maintain
  • Journal

• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Culture
  • Politics

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• People hate searching.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Hate
  • Searching

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Respect
  • Language

• Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Support
  • Ending

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• The people are tired of these mainstream media outlets telling them who should be the boss, who should be the nominee, because it hasn't worked.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • People
  • Tired
  • Boss

• You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

  

  Mark Z. Jacobson
  • Power
  • Wind

• You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

  

  Jon Polito
  • Alone

• Every time we think about being happy again, it hurts to be alive. Because it seems an inordinate thing for us to wish for. And because we think that day will never come for us. And that's why the only thing we can do for now... ...is just try to get through each night.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Being

• I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

  

  Matt Stone
  • May
  • Political

• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • May
  • Effort