Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CityLongYouGoWaySee

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

Joe Kaeser

FlyYouLookBackCopySay

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

Andris Nelsons

MusicGreatQualitySocietyWant

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stella Adler

GreatBestIdeasAlwaysExperiences

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

FreedomProblemsFightingBagTrying

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

Louise Jameson

ChangePoliticalProducerWell

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

TruthHumbleThinkLittleMayUs

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

Denis Leary

SkyYellowParentsImmigrantsBorn

History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.

Christopher McQuarrie

HistoryStartBudgetViewYouDown

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Boyle Roche

BirdPlacesTwoHowOnceWere

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Bob Goodlatte

BusinessMoneyDoorLawyersKnow

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

Ashley Judd

LifeAloneResponsibilityTalent

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

Peter Jackson

GoodGreatPossibilitiesYouNow

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