Walt Whitman Quotes

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.

Walt Whitman

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• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Personality
  • Lies
  • Two

• One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Time
  • Great
  • New

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• 'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Important

• Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  

  Washington Irving
  • History

• I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• 'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Believe

• They pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Essence

• Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Positive

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Good

• When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • People
  • Color

• Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think some people will have a hard time eating sardines in olive oil or pickled sardines for breakfast. I guess that is why I am still single.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

  

  George Saunders
  • Human
  • Represent
  • Monologue

• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

  

  Larry Bird
  • School
  • Think
  • Thought

• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Night
  • Giving

• Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Space
  • Laborer