Coney Quotes
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Coney Quotes & Sayings
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The brain is like a bio-computer that manufactures whatever we feed into it with our thoughts.
— Marianne Williamson
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
— Ernst Haas
Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
— Elbert Hubbard
Her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 18// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 65// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
And I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 52// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
— Spike Lee
Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.
— Samuel Foote
I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.
— David Hemmings
[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
— Dorothy Parker
I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
— Yogi Berra
I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and my wax wings fell off
pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
— Thornton Wilder
If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.
— Mark Kurlansky
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
— Harold Feinstein
You and me could really exist
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 22// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!
— Rodney Dangerfield
And balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 30// // A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
— Harold Feinstein
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
— Arlo Guthrie
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
— David Blaine
I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
— Jerry Della Femina
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
— Harold Feinstein
Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
— Frederick Lenz
...when the pain subsides the grief remains.
— Jonathan Brett Kennedy
Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.
— John Fowles
Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti