Gregory Corso Quotes

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

Gregory Corso

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1930 - January 17, 2001

Topics

GoodFoodWindowRestaurantOut

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

Jenny Eclair

StyleMixMuchVerySchizophrenic

Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It's more unexpected for someone like me.

Andreja Pejic

WorkAchievementQueenPeopleCool

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

ConfidenceExperienceCleverHuman

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

Jean Reno

MeProudThingsBeingDifferent

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Mike Gordon

RestGoWantBandSoundAgree

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Milan Kundera

Meant To BeMasterHammerToolMay

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

Jose Rizal

RestIndependenceStubbornDareWill

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Joichi Ito

HistoryBadKnowBelievingReason

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

Dolly Parton

CountryDrivenStuffSongsMost

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Drake

FearMusicGenerationFeelOpinions

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

Brian Kernighan

PeopleReadingLearnWayMatterSee

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Brigitte Bardot

WomanMeWorldToo MuchNowNeed

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