Walt Whitman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
-
I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
-
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
-
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
-
My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
-
I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
-
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
-
Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
-
I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
-
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
-
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
-
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
-
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
-
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.
-
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
-
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
-
Online bullying has to stop.
-
When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.
-
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
-
I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.
-
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems.
