Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

Lewis H. Lapham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 8, 1935

Topics

LookCountryDangerousDressedWell

I'm not a guitar hero.

Jimmy Page

HeroGuitar

It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

Jens Lekman

GoodControlSongGoSayWill

I just couldn't handle people coming on to me with motives other than music.

Anita Morris

MusicPeopleMeComingHandleJust

The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

Michael Franti

WorldGoUnderstandPlacesMore

I was playing acoustic bossa nova music in a trio, and Tucker was the DJ that night. He came early and saw what we were doing and ended up remixing one of my songs on the spot... We have been working together ever since!

Sophie Hawley-Weld

MusicWorking TogetherTogetherNight

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

Simon McBurney

PeopleMeTheatreNobodyAssumeGet

I'm known clean around the Earth.

Minnesota Fats

EarthCleanKnownAround

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

Chris Gibson

CorruptionLookAcceptCannotAlbany

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Bryant H. McGill

LoveHateFreeEverythingControls

Life should be art, right?

Brian Tyree Henry

LifeArtRightShould

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

FriendshipMeYouGenuineOldTwo

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

Philip Pullman

TryingWoodUnderstandUpSomething

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