Frank Lentricchia Quotes

Only the past is real. ~ Frank Lentricchia

People are mysterious, even to themselves. ~ Frank Lentricchia

The camera has a mind of its own
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. ~ Frank Lentricchia

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

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 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

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
it reaches!
for the purity of death. ~ Frank Lentricchia

No one can be the total cure for another person. ~ Frank Lentricchia

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
this is his metaphysical wager
is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life. ~ Frank Lentricchia

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much. ~ Frank Herbert

The bald unpalatable fact is emphasized that the Highlands and Islands are largely a devastated terrain, and that any policy which ignores this fact cannot hope to achieve rehabilitation. ~ Frank Fraser Darling

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. - Emperor Nick Chopper (The Tin Woodsman) -The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 86 chapter 11 ~ L. Frank Baum

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."
I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one. ~ Michael Cunningham

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. ~ Frank Lorenzo

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. ~ Frank Sinatra

A man without hope is a man without fear. ~ Frank Miller

Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures. ~ Frank Gohlke

Transient and Eternal
The state of the world is in flux, and every object within it is subject to change.
Concepts live outside of time and, because All Things Are Number, liberate us from it. ~ Frank Wilczek

Nobody fights with Jerry because you know the price would be too high. You might come out the winner, at his age, you might even lick him, but you'd lose an eye, an arm, your testicles in the process, everything would be gone. ~ Frank Layden

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. ~ Frank Sinatra

The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it. ~ Frank Muir

The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal of the intelligent man is a character in which the will to believe of the saint and the will to doubt of the scientist meet and mingle. ~ Glenn Frank

People talk about Frank [Sinatra] all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. ~ Bob Dylan

When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person. ~ Frank Iero

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords. ~ Lord Chesterfield

The American conscience died with the Kennedys. ~ Frank Miller

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches. ~ Ze Frank

If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.' ~ Frank Tipler

To accept a little death is worse than death itself. ~ Frank Herbert

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential. ~ Frank Shorter

Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation. ~ L. Frank Baum

White lies matter. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on. ~ Frank Gehry

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave. ~ Anne Frank

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. ~ Robert E.Lee

An alternative food system is rising up on the margins," Joel continued. "One day Frank Perdue and Don Tyson are going to wake up and find that their world has changed. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen, just as it did for those Catholic priests who came to church one Sunday morning only to find that, my goodness, there aren't as many people in the pews today. Where in the world has everybody gone? ~ Michael Pollan

Indeed these men had the dangerous look that Frank associated with machismo, the look of men who oppressed their women so cruelly that naturally the women struck back where they could, terrorizing sons who then terrorized wives who terrorized sons and so on and so on, in an endless death spiral of twisted love and sex hatred. So that in that sense they were all madmen. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Moments don't last forever, but their memories do. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. ~ Frank Herbert

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? ~ Anne Frank

A business that doesn't change is a business that is going to die. ~ Frank Perdue

I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in. ~ Joan Frank

What's your name, honey?" Frank asked her. "Beth Riley," she said. She could hear footsteps overhead as the agents stomped around her parents' bedroom upstairs. "What's your real name?" he asked. Her skin prickled. "Beth Riley," she said again. ~ Chelsea Cain

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. ~ Frank Deford

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history ~ Charles Kennedy

People who live a life of purpose have core beliefs and values that influence their decisions, shape their day-to-day actions, and determine their short- and long-term priorities. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed. ~ Frank Bidart

We're family," Alyss said.
Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd.
Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!"
I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered. ~ Frank Beddor

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. ~ Frank Zappa