Walt Whitman Quotes

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

Walt Whitman

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• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Type
  • Scream

• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Arrangements

• Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Dream
  • Silent
  • Caught

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Audiences
  • Arrangements

• I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Queen

• I'm man enough to know when to scream.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Scream

• Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Success

• Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Intellect

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Blame
  • Enemies

• NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Sound
  • Scream
  • Professor Mcgonagall

• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • May
  • Soul

• At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Failures
  • Pregnant

• Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Film

• So when I ask a simple question, where were you last night, you wanna yell and scream and try to flip it on me.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Night
  • Question
  • Simple

• My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Scream

• Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Bored

• Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Scream
  • Howl

• The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Excuse
  • Failures
  • Inaction

• Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Writing
  • Failures
  • Rewards

• One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Team
  • Sex
  • Creatures

• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Army

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Thoughts
  • Pictures
  • Room

• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Failures
  • Scream
  • Arrangements