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

• I don't know how much time I have left, and there are certain things I'd like to do. I've got five kids. Kacy, the oldest, I'd like to see her be happy and fulfilled with her dreams. I want Junior, who gave me the two transplants, I want him to find his niche; I know he's going to make a very big impact someday.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Happy

• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Believe
  • Children

• It's very encouraging they're funding more inspectors. The mine safety bill the legislature passed would have been a hollow victory to some extent without this money to be sure additional inspections can be made.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Money
  • Victory
  • Safety

• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Different
  • Nice

• I was neeeever a cool kid.

  

  David Furnish
  • Cool

• 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