The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
ALLEN GINSBERG Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows i...
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging them...
ALLEN GINSBERG Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
ALLEN GINSBERG I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
ALLEN GINSBERG Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
ALLEN GINSBERG We're all golden sunflowers inside.
ALLEN GINSBERG Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
ALLEN GINSBERG Whoever controls the media
ALLEN GINSBERG I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought...
ALLEN GINSBERG The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what ...
ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what ...
ALLEN GINSBERG I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a cou...
ALLEN GINSBERG Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world...
ALLEN GINSBERG Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers...
ALLEN GINSBERG When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.
ALLEN GINSBERG My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
ALLEN GINSBERG So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class stud...
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
ALLEN GINSBERG Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended t...
ALLEN GINSBERG Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
jiggling your knees blankly in the rain.
When it sno...
ALLEN GINSBERG No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the p...
ALLEN GINSBERG I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
ALLEN GINSBERG Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
ALLEN GINSBERG America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
ALLEN GINSBERG It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
ALLEN GINSBERG It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
ALLEN GINSBERG The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w...
ALLEN GINSBERG Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl...
ALLEN GINSBERG If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my e...
ALLEN GINSBERG Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
ALLEN GINSBERG Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG What if somebody gave a war and
Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and
Forev...
ALLEN GINSBERG That's it. And you did, really, in the 1990s. You saw a lot of great minds just get ... fucked.
ALLEN GINSBERG our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
ALLEN GINSBERG Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
ALLEN GINSBERG Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't...
ALLEN GINSBERG Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.
ALLEN GINSBERG The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissa...
ALLEN GINSBERG what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
ALLEN GINSBERG ...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tra...
ALLEN GINSBERG Howl and Other Poems
ALLEN GINSBERG Absolutes are Coercion.
Change is absolute.
ALLEN GINSBERG Poets are Damned ... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
ALLEN GINSBERG I heard 'Hard Rain' and wept,
ALLEN GINSBERG Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talki...
ALLEN GINSBERG The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal dece...
ALLEN GINSBERG I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking w...
ALLEN GINSBERG I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
ALLEN GINSBERG Everybody's serious but me.
ALLEN GINSBERG I know too much and not enough
ALLEN GINSBERG I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
ALLEN GINSBERG I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision
ALLEN GINSBERG I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
ALLEN GINSBERG I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking...
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging them...
ALLEN GINSBERG They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven!
ALLEN GINSBERG I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of th...
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked... who wandere...
ALLEN GINSBERG Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
ALLEN GINSBERG Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.
ALLEN GINSBERG Who dreamt
and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space
through images juxtaposed,
a...
ALLEN GINSBERG in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door...
ALLEN GINSBERG with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls
ALLEN GINSBERG I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
ALLEN GINSBERG Our heads are round so thought can change direction
ALLEN GINSBERG Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.
ALLEN GINSBERG ..who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for an Eternity outside of Time, and ala...
ALLEN GINSBERG I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
ALLEN GINSBERG What is obscenity? And to whom?
ALLEN GINSBERG The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock an...
ALLEN GINSBERG He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put ...
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for ...
ALLEN GINSBERG You too must seek the sun...
ALLEN GINSBERG Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
ALLEN GINSBERG The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden<...
ALLEN GINSBERG All these books are published in Heaven.
ALLEN GINSBERG No rest without love,
no sleep without dreams of love-
be mad or chill obsessed with ang...
ALLEN GINSBERG I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of th...
ALLEN GINSBERG The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open...
ALLEN GINSBERG No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill ALLEN GINSBERG Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adoration...
ALLEN GINSBERG I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
ALLEN GINSBERG I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
d...
ALLEN GINSBERG Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an ang...
ALLEN GINSBERG I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins,
eyes an...
ALLEN GINSBERG America, the plum blossoms are falling.
ALLEN GINSBERG who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watch...
ALLEN GINSBERG Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that every...
DEBRA GINSBERG I thought it was creative and it tasted so good. I ran upstairs and typed it up.
ANNA GINSBERG I sometimes dream of opening a coffeehouse.
ANNA GINSBERG My mom worked and I cooked for love.
ANNA GINSBERG This recipe came to me like a lightning bolt out of the blue. I think it is a great way to enjoy wel...
ANNA GINSBERG Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give ...
LOUIS GINSBERG Procrastination isn’t task management, it’s feeling management.
SCOTT GINSBERG We consider this a strong endorsement of the company and its leadership.
GARY GINSBERG It is a theoretical risk, and it is prudent to minimize that risk.
GARY GINSBERG We're a community of music writers, performers and music enthusiasts involved in nontraditional musi...
ERIC GINSBERG No matter what kind of music you're into, you need rhythm. And it's good to expose people to as much...
ERIC GINSBERG The community is part of the idea that if we musicians don't support each other, nobody else will. W...
ERIC GINSBERG It's more about the experience than the stuff. Good skin begins with just taking care of it.
IAN GINSBERG You'll see a lot of things you've never seen before.
IAN GINSBERG The New York store has always had a cult following. (Customers) feel really comfortable there and th...
IAN GINSBERG We don't fairy dust anything.
IAN GINSBERG We're one of the only stores that still makes stuff. New York's a tough town. In order to dazzle peo...
IAN GINSBERG We can't say this person committed a crime, but we can say this person's DNA was found at the scene.
LONNIE GINSBERG It's hard to get your foot in the door. There's a limited number of jobs. They're usually looking fo...
LONNIE GINSBERG We don't go to crime scenes, and we're not cops. We're scientists who assist the police a lot. It lo...
LONNIE GINSBERG The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive contr...
RUTH BADER GINSBERG If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
WOODY ALLEN Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving y...
TED ALLEN My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is...
TED ALLEN Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...
TIM ALLEN I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
TED ALLEN Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
TED ALLEN People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibilit...
TED ALLEN I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine foo...
TED ALLEN The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the seco...
TED ALLEN In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food...
TED ALLEN Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
TED ALLEN However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been...
TED ALLEN For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drud...
TED ALLEN Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entert...
TED ALLEN Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He ...
TED ALLEN I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
TED ALLEN I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just rea...
TED ALLEN To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anyt...
TED ALLEN My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's ...
TED ALLEN Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,...
TED ALLEN One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and m...
TED ALLEN Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicki...
TED ALLEN I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at t...
TED ALLEN It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get...
TED ALLEN When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's m...
TED ALLEN I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles...
TED ALLEN Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting ...
RALPH ALLEN I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
RALPH ALLEN People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
RALPH ALLEN I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained ...
RALPH ALLEN At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, wher...
RALPH ALLEN The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
RALPH ALLEN My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Ha...
RALPH ALLEN Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and pot...
WOODY ALLEN I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
WOODY ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
WOODY ALLEN If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very in...
WOODY ALLEN I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses,...
KAREN ALLEN People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
KAREN ALLEN There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.
KAREN ALLEN I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in th...
KAREN ALLEN If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
KAREN ALLEN The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It&#...
KAREN ALLEN A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I los...
KAREN ALLEN I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
KAREN ALLEN I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm goin...
KAREN ALLEN I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing i...
KAREN ALLEN Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would t...
KAREN ALLEN As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that...
KAREN ALLEN Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
KAREN ALLEN I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
KAREN ALLEN My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't wa...
KAREN ALLEN I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I coul...
KAREN ALLEN I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interes...
KAREN ALLEN I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some ele...
KAREN ALLEN Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind...
KAREN ALLEN I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire t...
KAREN ALLEN I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
KAREN ALLEN You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I wan...
KAREN ALLEN I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying...
KAREN ALLEN What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
WOODY ALLEN What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
TED ALLEN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman...
WOODY ALLEN So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure ...
ALLEN WEST Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.
ALLEN IVERSON The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual ...
ALLEN WEST I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the firs...
ALLEN IVERSON There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to h...
ALLEN BOYD The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen So...
NANCY ALLEN God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
WOODY ALLEN Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
DEBBIE ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
GEORGE ALLEN In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oas...
ALLEN WEST The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
WOODY ALLEN From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and be...
ALLEN WEST