Walt Whitman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
-
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
-
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
-
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
-
We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
-
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
-
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
-
It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
-
I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
-
I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
-
Men think for themselves when they’re men.
-
It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
-
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
-
Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
-
BULLSHIT. Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name. ... As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE. ... WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?
-
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
-
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
-
The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
-
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
-
The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.
-
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
-
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
-
Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
-
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
