Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 24, 1919

Topics

MoneyRealEverythingLineBottom

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LiveLeadingOne ThingEndlessScale

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

Aneurin Barnard

WorkChildBondWalkingBootsDown

You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.

Jeanne Damas

YouBackParisLeaveComeDiscover

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

Steve Harvey

LifeMyselfGameMy LifeWantNever

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Robert Wyatt

SingingLostDrummerLegsSinger

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

Miriam Margolyes

PeopleThinkI ThinkHowJudgedBit

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

Lois Lowry

ImportantSayWantThingsBooks

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Jonathan Raymond

FutureYouKnowVenturePsychic

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

Dina Merrill

ActingDoneDepressingSocialStill

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Donald Tusk

HistoryCountryUnderstandIsrael

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Christopher Buckley

MotherNecessityBipartisanship

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Bram Fischer

InjusticePrejudiceSeeWhoBlinded

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