Lentricchia Famous Quotes & Sayings
25 Lentricchia Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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— Frank Lentricchia
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.
I've always loved who I loved, and it never mattered to me where they were from. That's how it should be: wherever your heart tells you to go, you go.— Rutina Wesley
Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches— Frank Lentricchia
it reaches!
for the purity of death.
There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.— Charles Williams
The camera has a mind of its own— Frank Lentricchia
its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze
the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.
He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.— Barbara Kingsolver
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?
In the end, everything is found to be wanting.— Frank Lentricchia
No one can be the total cure for another person.— Frank Lentricchia
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
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.— Sarah Zettel
Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!— William Hazlitt
That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment— Melina Marchetta
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.— Confucius
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.— Richard Bach
People are mysterious, even to themselves.— Frank Lentricchia
Only the past is real.— Frank Lentricchia
I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.— Cesar Chavez
Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us— Frank Lentricchia
this is his metaphysical wager
is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.
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
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.— Winona LaDuke
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.— Joseph O'Neill
It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.— Lindsay Lohan
I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.— Trina Paulus
Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.— Frank Lentricchia
I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.— Irwin Winkler
