Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Home
  • American
  • Freedom

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Long
  • Values
  • Personal

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Part

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • World
  • Home
  • Christmas

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Past
  • Years
  • Stronger

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

  

  Boozoo Chavis
  • Up

• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Sun

• I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • World
  • Different
  • Children

• I truly believe my haters are my motivators.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Believe
  • Hate
  • Haters

• People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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