Allen Ginsberg Quotes

Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.

Allen Ginsberg

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• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Great
  • Bold
  • Noble

• I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Favorite
  • Series
  • Adore

• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Hope
  • Man

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Party
  • Challenge
  • Personality

• I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Know
  • Need
  • Wait

• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Car
  • New
  • Expectations

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  

  Jack London
  • God
  • Mother
  • Class

• It's always about the music, never about anything else.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Always
  • Never

• Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Everyone
  • Remedy
  • Wrongs

• Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Nation
  • Scared

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Shoes
  • Laugh
  • England

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Earth
  • Evolution

• You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Fall

• Our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Purpose
  • Friendship
  • Show

• Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Up

• I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

  

  John Carney
  • Amazing
  • Star
  • Rain

• Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.

  

  Allen Ginsberg