Allen Ginsberg Quotes

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

Allen Ginsberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997

Topics

BeautifulYourselfGenerationIdiot

We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be.

Jochen Zeitz

VisionCreativePeopleDirectionSet

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

John George Nicolay

ReputationHouseWashingtonNothing

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay

WorldGentlemanRichYouCompany

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

John Hench

GreatOptimismKindWillWayOkay

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.

Robin Van Persie

ThinkBallAverageSomewhereHalf

I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.

Michael Trucco

ManI AmWeekendWarriorPoorWhere

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

Michelle Gomez

MyselfBeginningMeSayingBelieve

Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.

Luke Hemsworth

GreatBestChildhoodDeathCreative

Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great joke, but we can't do that. Okay, let's try the second joke. Oh, you can't do that one. But the third joke you can do,' and hopefully it will be great, but it will remind people of what the joke really was.

Jay Chandrasekhar

GreatPeopleWritingYouTelevision

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

Chris Kyle

LifeTryingBackNormalGetJust

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Brett Favre

FamilyFootballPeopleTeamProblems

The elitist way of looking on the runway, frankly, seems old fashioned.

Anna Wintour

LookingWayOldRunwaySeems

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