Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

I guess we all could have been put in jail for that. Do you think the statute of limitations has expired?

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • People
  • Love
  • Comedy

• There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • California
  • Say
  • Tea

• In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • Live
  • Together

• My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • She
  • Beautiful

• One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Time
  • Game
  • Lost

• Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Knowledge
  • Morning

• If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Government

• People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Effort
  • Result

• We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • May
  • Future

• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
  • Important
  • Light

• The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Entertainment
  • Rome
  • Leisure

• I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been doing it for 15 years, but I've trained as a singer and I am a singer and this is what I've always wanted to do. To get the opportunity to marry these two things that I love so much, it's been a dream, without a doubt. I'm sort of pinching myself still.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Vision
  • Speak
  • Humility

• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I guess we all could have been put in jail for that. Do you think the statute of limitations has expired?

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Jail
  • Limitations
  • Statute