Quotes About Lentricchia

#1. The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton

#2. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.

Ford Madox Ford

#3. Only the past is real.

Frank Lentricchia

#4. I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. Glenn Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know. Neither has Bryan Robson

Ron Greenwood

#6. Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

Andrew Lau

#7. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Frank Lentricchia

#8. From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon - often after they have received a foreclosure notice - which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete.

Eric Schneiderman

#9. I wonder, though ... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.

Jenny Han

#10. No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Thomas Friedman

#11. Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

Frank Lentricchia

#12. Whatever those things are that make you feel fully alive and like the universe is ultimately a good place and you are not alone, I need a faith that doesn't deny these moments but embraces them.

Rob Bell

#13. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

Benedict Freedman

#14. To hate someone you just have to observe and watch, but to love someone it takes everything.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

Frank Lentricchia

#16. That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Frank Lentricchia

#17. As bland as oatmeal, yet somehow I'd become the rumor mill's hot sauce.

Rebecca Hamilton

#18. People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Frank Lentricchia

#19. Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.

J. Willard Marriott

#20. I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

Kent Haruf

#21. No one can be the total cure for another person.

Frank Lentricchia

#22. No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

George Miller

#23. In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Frank Lentricchia