Walt Whitman Quotes
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
-
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
-
Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
-
I'm not Cinderella.
-
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
-
As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
-
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
-
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
-
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
-
I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
-
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
-
In my beginning is my end.
-
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
-
The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
-
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
-
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
-
I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
-
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
-
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
-
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
