Walt Whitman Quotes
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
Taylor Caldwell -
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
Banks -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
Yair Lapid -
As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
Barry Jenkins -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
Tanya Tucker -
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
Omari Hardwick -
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann -
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
Carles Puigdemont -
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
Henry David Thoreau -
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
David Gross -
The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.
Ali Fazal -
I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.
Kevin Nealon -
Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.
Jochen Zeitz -
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
Chaim Potok
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For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Barack Obama -
You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
Frank Grillo -
Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He's in great shape. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a square jawline. He's a big star!
Kurt Fuller -
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Kevin Kelly -
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.
Walt Whitman