Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImageSomethingVisualEasierThan

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Joanna Lumley

SpaceConstructionLearnSkinNASA

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.

Andrew J. Feustel

BestSpaceLakeDetroitOpenUp

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Plant

WorkMusiciansEverythingOwe

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anita Brookner

HomeWomenGoWillMoreNever

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.

Michael Arrington

QualityInternetTalkingSillyApple

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

John Ross Bowie

WorkComedyDoingLongComplaining

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Monica Ali

LifeYouDownSituationBornRun

By the way, I have had zero press training.

Josh Trank

TrainingWayZeroPressHad

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

Christoph Waltz

CharacterPhilosophyFindPersonWay

No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person.

Brad Paisley

LoveMusicFireTogetherCoolDoing

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Anthony Lewis

TodaySilenceCaseBarrierOfficial

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Alison Gopnik

ChangeChildrenParentsMindNewUp

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