Walt Whitman Quotes

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Walt Whitman

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Time
  • Hope
  • You

• I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Night

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Think
  • Running
  • Sleep

• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Plane

• From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Happy
  • Retired
  • Racing Driver

• The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Time
  • Future
  • Smart

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Real
  • Know

• I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Crumbling
  • Sync
  • Hackney

• You shout in your sleep. Perhaps the price is just too steep. Is your conscience at rest if once put to the test? You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart. Just one man beneath the sky, Just two ears, just two eyes.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  

  Tablo
  • Soul
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

  

  David Nutter
  • Bible
  • Scripts
  • Basically

• The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake