Walt Whitman Quotes

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

Walt Whitman

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• It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Trying
  • Negative
  • Parenting

• Paris ain't much of a town.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Paris
  • Much
  • Town

• I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Sky
  • Mark
  • Missed

• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Today
  • Year

• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Team
  • Always
  • Movies

• I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Justice
  • Internet
  • Devil

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Violence
  • Secret
  • Dirty

• John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• I want people to be happy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Break

• Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Actor
  • Show
  • Coach

• I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

  

  Princess Nokia
  • Free
  • Expectations
  • Stereotypes

• I’ve thought about it, I’ll admit that. But I can’t see us hanging it up any time soon. Let’s get one thing straight: we would never become a parody of ourselves. But it’s my job to drive Maiden, and one day I’m not going to be able to do it any more.

  

  Nicko McBrain Iron Maiden
  • Job
  • Drive
  • Maiden

• Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Art
  • Facts
  • Firsts

• There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Value
  • Laws
  • Humorous

• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Destruction
  • Madness
  • Drive