Quotes About Lucien Carr

#1. A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Ariel Levy

#2. I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

Ben Shneiderman

#3. Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus

#4. Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

Socrates

#5. Just to make your eyes sparkle, I'd do anything. I could give it all up to know you were my girl.

Abbi Glines

#6. If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

George R R Martin

#7. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

Lucien Carr

#9. I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

Lucien Carr

#10. To be reborn, you have to die first.

Lucien Carr

#11. I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

Ricky Gervais

#12. The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

Abdul Kalam

#13. My father, whose work I adore ... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

Jamie Wyeth

#14. This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

John Mayer

#15. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet