Walt Whitman Quotes

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

Walt Whitman

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• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Housing

• I just can't read music.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Read
  • Just

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sick

• As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Kind
  • Guys
  • Perform

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Suicide

• 'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Truth

• Consider why the quality of school dinners is declining, even as more and more golf courses are opened.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • School
  • Why
  • Quality

• Sic quisque pavendodat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorumquae finxere timent.

  

  Lucan

• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • People
  • World
  • Death

• They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • Competition

• I love who I am. I love what I've become.

  

  Bernie Mac

• I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Cool
  • Training

• A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get from that, but actually tell you a broader story. I think it's a noble idea that it's cathartic to open a vein for everybody to see, but ultimately, you're just getting blood everywhere and making a mess. I like the idea that there are deeper and more meaningful things to talk about than your own misery. But at the same time, there's something really interesting about skirting that line and making it seem like you're doing that.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Blood

• I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Work
  • Experience

• I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Heaven

• I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Storms
  • Oceans