Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
Garth Brooks -
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar -
I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
Park Geun-hye -
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Sam Heughan -
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
Laura Haddock -
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick
-
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham Lincoln -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
Oliver Tambo -
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. Barnum -
I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
Kate Upton -
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
-
I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
Sam Altman -
The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
Gabriel Basso -
We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
Parker Harris -
I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
Taron Egerton -
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein -
A million years went by quick.
Carlton Fisk
-
I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.
Andy Dunn -
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci -
As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.
Zachary Levi -
Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
Lawrence Ferlinghetti